Chandigarh, March 22 -- Days after its defeat in the assembly elections in the national capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday named former Delhi deputy chief minister and senior leader Manish Sisodia and former minister Satyender Jain as in-charge and co-in-charge of the party unit in Punjab.

Sisodia has replaced Jarnail Singh, a four-time AAP MLA from Tilak Nagar in Delhi, as the Punjab affairs in-charge, while Jain comes in place of Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha. These appointments are part of a major organisational rejig carried out by the party nearly six weeks after its Delhi loss. These decisions were taken at a meeting of the AAP's political affairs committee at its national convener and former Delhi chief minister Arvin...