chandigarh a leading sports goods owner a kabbadi player and a surgeon has made it to second list of shiromani akali dal badal for the 2017 punjab assembly elections the ruling party had earlier announced 69 candidates in its first listfour mlas including that from the key malerkotla and bagha purana seats have been dropped malerkotla the muslimdominated has emerged as a big political battle ground after the june controversy involving the sacrilege of quran which had led to the arrest of aam aadmi party aap mla naresh yadav of delhisad has removed its sitting mla and wife of exdgp izhar alam farzana alam who had defeated then adgp mohammad mustafas wife and congress candidate razia sultana more than 5000 votesthe new sad candidate is mohammad owais who runs a sports goods factory and also trains football to young kids at his academy al kaser meaning abundancethe contest has already become keener after the aap announced sultanas brother arshad dalimaheshinder singh who had only last week resigned from sad while accused his party of sending cops to his house to intimidate him for not quitting the party has been replaced with teerath singh mahlain budhlada a leading doctor dr nishan singh has been announced as the candidate he has replaced sitting mla chatin singhan international kabbadi player gulzar singh has been picked from dirba seat while sads dhuri mla gobind singh longowal has been sent to sunam sunam was being represented by punjab finance minister parminder dhindsa but aaps young businessmancandidate aman arora is being billed as a heavyweight hereboth malerkotla and sunam are key seats and will set the trend of for political parties alongwith patiala lehra gagga bathinda mansa in malwa area whoever wins these seats will take away the key malwa area said a senior akali dal leaderin another key constituency bassi pathana former ias darbara singh guru has replaced sitting mla nirmal singh guru had earlier contested from bhadaur and lost to mohammad sadiq