24 new AAP faces in list of 70 names

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24 new AAP faces in list of 70 names

Wednesday, 15 January 2020 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

24 new AAP faces in list of 70 names

Party retains 46 MLAs for polls, Kejriwal to  fight from New Delhi

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday announced its list of all 70 candidates for the Delhi Assembly polls to be held on February 8.  The party has given tickets to 24 new faces, including Atishi, Dilip Pandey and Raghav Chadha, who unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

The AAP retained 46 sitting candidates that included Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who will contest from New Delhi Assembly seat for the third consecutive time, while his deputy Manish Sisodia has been fielded from the Patparganj Assembly, Kailash Gehlot from Najafgarh, Satyendar Jain from Shakur Basti, Gopal Rai from Babarpur, Imran Husain from Ballimaran and Rajender Pal Gautam from Seemapuri.

Sisodia said party’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) has approved names of all 70 candidates for the polls. “The existing MLAs will contest elections on 46 seats. There are 8 women candidates among them. In 2015, there were six women,” Sisodia, said.

Soon after the announcement, Kejriwal tweeted, “Best wishes to all. Don’t be complacent. Work hard. People have lots of faith in the AAP and your. God bless.”

Interestingly, AAP MLA from Delhi Cantonment Commando Surinder Singh and Adarsh Shastri, MLA from Dwarka, have been denied ticket and replaced by Virender Singh Kadian and Vinay Kumar Mishra, who is son of three-time MLA Congress and one term MP from West Delhi Lok Sabha Mahabal Mishra.

The new faces in the list are former Congressmen Shoaib Iqbal (Matia Mahal), Prahlad Singh Sawhney (Chandni Chowk), Durgesh Pathak (Karawal Nagar), Naveen Choudhary (Gandhi Nagar), BS Joon (Bijwasan), and Mukesh Kumar Ajlawat (Sultan Pur Majra).

The AAP has retained former Law Minister Jitender Tomar, who was arrested by the Delhi Police in June 2015 for presenting fake law degree in his election affidavits.   

While the AAP has declared all its candidates at one go, its rivals the BJP and the Congress are yet to announce names of their candidates. When asked about the announcement of BJP candidates, a Delhi BJP leader said party High Command is meeting on Thursday to decide on candidates. The BJP will declare all the names by January 19. The Congress that was decimated in 2015 Assembly election with zero seat, has not decided on its candidates.

Delhi Congress leaders are looking towards interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi to give the go ahead.

While the Congress and the BJP are slow to start, the AAP is going whole hog with its volunteers carpet bombing the localities with the works done by Arvind Kejriwal Government during its 5 years rule.

It may be noted that Delhi Assembly polls will be held on February 8, 2020 and the counting of votes will take place on February 11th. “While AAP is going to the people with its slogan ‘Abki Baar 67 paar’, BJP will have to come out with something extra to checkmate BJP and convince voters that it will provide even better facilities if voted to power”, said a BJP leader.

 

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