New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party Thursday declared Former Congress MLA Sushil Rinku as its candidate for upcoming Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll.
Rinku was the Congress MLA from Jalandhar West seat in the previous assembly and joined AAP on Wednesday in presence of Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann and Raghav Chadda.
Interestingly, Rinku had called AAP government the murderer of Sidhu Moosewala.
The polling for the Jalandhar parliamentary seat will take place on May 10 while the counting will be held on May 13.
The bypoll was necessitated due to the death of Congress MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary in January at the age of 76.
He died after suffering a cardiac arrest during the party's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jalandhar's Phillaur.
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