nSenior Congress leaders Haroon Yusuf, Arvinder Singh Lovely, Alka Lamba and Poonam Azad were among the prominent party candidates who filed their nominations for the Delhi Assembly elections on Monday.
Lovely has been fielded from east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar, a seat he has represented four times in the past. Yusuf is fighting from his pocket borough of Ballimaran, while Lamba, a former AAP MLA who joined the Congress last year, is contesting from Chandni Chowk.
Former Delhi Assembly speaker Yoganand Shastri's daughter Priyanka is in the fray from RK Puram. Poonam Azad, the wife of Congress' campaign in-charge Kirti Azad, also filed her nomination on Monday. She is contesting from Sangam Vihar.
Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Councillor Rakesh Kumar on Monday joined the Congress party along with his supporters.
Kumar, Councillor from Ajmeri Gate who was welcomed into the Congress fold by party's Delhi unit president Subhash Chopra, alleged that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was an "opportunist" and deliberately kept quiet on the issue of the amended citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens.
Chopra said that leaders from other political parties are lining up to join the Congress party. "The AAP and BJP are supporting each other but in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, the people of Delhi will teach both these parties a lesson for betraying them.
