Chandigarh, Aug. 27 -- The Association of Students for Alternative Politics (ASAP), a student wing of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has announced Mankirat Singh Mann as their presidential candidate for the Panjab University Campus Students Council (PUCSC) elections scheduled to be held on September 3. The party has also decided to contest for two posts this year and announced Komalpreet, a student of LLM, as their general secretary pick for the PU polls. The announcement came in at the AAP's party office in Sector 39 on Tuesday.

Mankirat Singh Mann, a research scholar at University Institute of Engineering and Technology, hails from Malout in Punjab and belongs to an agricultural family, and not based in politics. Mann marks a significant s...