The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is preparing to enter the poll mode ahead of their opponents, by holding discussions on candidates and key issues for the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections today. Two days back, The Tribune had exclusively reported that the meeting to discuss the Punjab election strategy would be held over the coming weekend. It is learnt that while Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann left for Delhi this morning, where he is set to hold discussions over likely candidates with the national party convener Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab affairs incharge Manish Sisodia.Punjab AAP president Aman Arora and political affairs committee member and Finance Minister Harpal Cheema will join the meeting through a video conference.Sources in the party have told The Tribune that AAP would announce its first list of candidates in the first week of November, though the discussions would be finalised today itself. This would make AAP the first political party in the poll-bound state to declare its candidates.Elections in the state are scheduled to be held in the month of February.Sources said the initial deliberations would focus on candidates who have won Assembly elections twice, with most of them expected to be considered for a third consecutive term.With the Election Commission of India reviewing the election preparedness in the state and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls over, sources in the party say that they intend to announce its candidates well in advance to give them time to reach out to voters and build support in their respective constituencies. AAP currently has 94 MLAs in the 117-member Punjab Assembly.