AMRITSAR, Oct. 4 -- Even as Election Commission of India is yet to announce the bypoll date, chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday named Harmeet Singh Sandhu as the party's nominee from the Tarn Taran assembly segment. The seat fell vacant following the death of AAP MLA Kashmir Singh Sohal on June 27 this year.

Mann, at the end of his address in a rally organised near Chabhal village to inaugurate rural link roads, introduced Sandhu as the party nominee, while asking the party rank and file to campaign for him.

"He (Sandhu) is the people's choice for the segment, not only of the party," Mann said.

A three-time MLA from Tarn Taran, Sandhu, 55, had resigned from Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in November last year. He joined AAP in Chandigar...