AAP announces to contest Shahkot by-poll ,declares Rattan Singh Kakkar Kalan as its nominee.
The decision to contest the by-poll was announced by Balbir Singh, Co-president of Punjab unit in the presence of Manish Sisodia after he presided over a meeting of the AAP leaders of Punjab at Chandigarh.
62 year old Rattan Singh is from the Ramgarhia community while both SAD candidate Naib Singh Kohar and Congress candidate Hardev S Laddi Sherowalia are Jatt Sikhs. Presently working as Doaba Zonal Secretary of the party, he joined AAP in 2015 .