Chandigarh, April 1: The Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday officially declared the candidates for three parliamentary constituencies of Anandpur Sahib, Fatehgarh Sahib and Patiala.
Prem Singh Chandumajra will be fielded again from Anandpur Sahib, Surjit Singh Rakhra from Patiala and former bureaucrat Darbara Singh Guru will be the party candidate from Fatehgarh Sahib.
The names of these candidates had been cleared by the party earlier, and their candidature was officially announced on Monday.
With this, the Akali Dal has cleared the names of five of the 10 candidates for the Lok Sabha polls to be held in Punjab on May 19.
The names of Bibi Jagir Kaur (from Khadoor Sahib) and Charanjit Singh Atwal (from Jalandhar) had been announced earlier.
Senior party leaders told media that the names of other candidates–for Sangrur, Ludhiana, Faridkot, Bathinda and Ferozepur–would be announced in this week.
