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Gupta is expected to file his nomination papers for the lone vacant seat next week.<br \/>\nGupta had recently resigned from his positions as vice-chairman of the State Economic Policy and Planning Board and chairperson of the Shree Kali Devi Advisory Committee. He was appointed vice-chairman of the Planning Board in 2022 and became chairperson of the temple\u2019s advisory committee in Patiala in August this year.<br \/>\nHe has previously served as vice-chairman of the Planning Board during the Congress and SAD-BJP governments as well.<br \/>\nAccording to official sources in the ruling party, Gupta\u2019s resignation came on a \u201cpositive note\u201d and he is being considered the frontrunner for the Rajya Sabha bypoll.<br \/>\nThe AAP government, which holds 93 seats in the 117-member Punjab Assembly, is reportedly seeking a prominent Punjabi candidate for the contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Industrialist Rajinder Gupta, chairman of Trident Group, is likely to be the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the October 24 Rajya Sabha bypoll. Gupta is expected to file his nomination papers for the lone vacant seat next week. Gupta had recently resigned from his positions as vice-chairman of the State Economic Policy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":52381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,20],"tags":[9817],"class_list":["post-52380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-political-news","category-punjab","tag-rajinder-gupta-likely-to-be-aap-candidate-for-rajya-sabha-bypoll-in-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Industrialist Rajinder Gupta likely to be AAP candidate for Rajya Sabha bypoll in Punjab - PunjabENews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/latest\/industrialist-rajinder-gupta-likely-to-be-aap-candidate-for-rajya-sabha-bypoll-in-punjab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Industrialist Rajinder Gupta likely to be AAP candidate for Rajya Sabha bypoll in Punjab - PunjabENews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chandigarh: Industrialist Rajinder Gupta, chairman of Trident Group, is likely to be the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate for the October 24 Rajya Sabha bypoll. 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