AAP announces Saravjit Kaur Manuke’s name for Jagraon constituency

Ludhiana: Sitting AAP MLA and deputy leader of the Opposition in Vidhan Sabha Saravjit Kaur Manuke will be party candidate from the Jagraon constituency for the 2022 Assembly elections. AAP has released the first list of 10 candidates, who will contest the Assembly elections. In 2017, Manuke had got 61,521 votes and won the Jagraon seat with a margin of 25,576 from Congress candidate Malkit Singh Dakha. — TNS

Union protests against state govt

Ludhiana: Members of the Municipal Karamchari Dal staged a protest on the second day outside MC Zone A office on Friday against the state government. Union chairman Vijay Danav and president Chaudhary Yashpal blamed the government for not regularising contractual sewermen and safai karamcharis.

Protesters announced to burn an effigy of the Punjab CM on Monday. If workers were not regularised , the agitation would be intensified, protesters added. — TNS