India, Oct. 30 -- The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will release its first list of candidates for the 2027 assembly elections in Punjab on Saturday.

Announcing this, chief minister Bhagwant Mann said he would release the first list of candidates after a meeting of the party's political affairs committee. "We have been declaring our candidates ahead of other parties in the past. We will follow the practice this time as well," he told the media in New Delhi after a meeting with AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab affairs in-charge Manish Sisodia. The meeting was held at Kejriwal's residence.

The chief minister said the names of candidates were discussed on the basis of "people surveys" and feedback on the performance of MLAs. "We wil...