The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) released the list of 70 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections on Tuesday and CM Arvind Kejriwal will be contesting from the New Delhi seat for the 3rd time, while Deputy CM Manish Sisodia will be contesting from the Patpadganj seat.
The list sees several new faces and quite many changes to it. Atishi has replaced MLA Avtar Singh and will contest the Assembly Elections from the Kalkaji seat for the first time. Raghav Chadha has replaced sitting MLA Vijender Garg and will now contest from Rajinder Nagar.
Kejriwal took to Twitter to congratulate and extend best wishes to all the candidates for the elections.
Best wishes to all. Don’t be complacent. Work v hard. People have lot of faith in AAP and u. God bless. https://t.co/JuuvriCoNG
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) January 14, 2020
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Here’s the complete candidate list-
1. Narela – Sharad Chauhan
2. Burari – Sanjeev Jha
3. Timarpur – Dilip Pandey
4. Adarsh Nagar – Pawan Sharma
5. Badli – Ajesh Yadav
6. Rithala – Mahinder Goyal
7. Bawana – Jai Bhagwan Upkar
8. Mundka – Dharampal Lakra
9. Kirari – Rituraj Jha
10.Sultan Pur Majra – Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat
11. Nangloi Jat – Raghuvinder Shokeen
12. Mangol Puri – Rakhi Bidlan
13. Rohini – Rajesh Nama Bansiwala
14. Shalimar Bagh – Bandana Kumari
15. Shakur Basti – Satyendra Jain
16. Tri Nagar – Jitender Tomar
17. Wazirpur – Rajesh Gupta
18. Model Town _ Akhilesh Pati Tripathi
19. Sadar Bazar – Som Dutt
20. Chandni Chowk – Parlad Singh Sawhney
21. Matia Mahal – Shoaib Iqbal
22. Ballimaran – Imran Hussain
23. Karol Bagh – Vishesh Ravi
24. Patel Nagar – Raaj Kumar Anand
25. Moti Nagar – Shiv Charan Goel
26. Madipur – Girish Soni
27. Rajouri Garden – Dhanwati Chandela
28. Hari Nagar – Rajkumari Dhillon
29. Tilak Nagar – Jarnail Singh
30. Janakpur – Rajesh Rishi
31. Vikaspuri – Mahinder Yadav
32. Uttam Nagar – Naresh Balyan
33. Dwarka – Vinay Kumar Mishra
34. Matiala – Gulab Singh Yadav
35. Najafgarh – Kailash Gahlot
36. Bijwasan – BS Joon
37. Palam – Bhavna Gaur
38. Delhi Cantonment – Virender Singh Kadian
39. Rajinder Nagar – Raghav Chadha
40. New Delhi – Arvind Kejriwal
41. Jangpura – Praveen Kumar
42. Kasturba Nagar – Madan Lal
43. Malviya Nagar – Somnath Bharti
44. RK Puram – Parmila Tokas
45. Mehrauli – Naresh Yadav
46. Chhatarpur – Kartar Singh Tanwar
47. Deoli – Prakash Jarwal
48. Ambedkar Nagar – Ajay Dutt
49. Sangam Nagar – Dinesh Mohaniya
50. Greater Kailash – Saurabh Bharadwaj
51. Kalkaji – Atishi
52. Tugalakabad – Shri Ram Pehelwan
53. Badarpur – Ram Singh Netaji
54. Okhla – Amanatullah Khan
55. Trilokpuri – Rohit Kumar Mehraulia
56. Kondli – Kuldeep Kumar (Monu)
57. Patparganj – Manish Sisodia
58. Laxmi Nagar – Nitin Tyagi
59. Vishwas Nagar – Deepak Singla
60. Krishna Nagar – SK Bagga
61. Gandhi Nagar – Naveen Choudhary (Deepu)
62. Shahdara – Ram Niwas Goyal
63. Seemapuri – Rajendra Pal Gautam
64. Rohtas Nagar – Sarita Singh
65. Seelampur – Abdul Rehman
66. Ghonda – SD Sharma
67. Babarpur – Gopal Rai
68. Gokalpur – Ch. Surendra Kumar
69. Mustafabad – Haji Yunus
70. Karawal Nagar – Durgesh Pathak
The AAP formed the government with a big majority in 2015 with 67 out of 70 seats after the national capital went to polls for the second time in 14 months. This victory made it the best win margin ever for a party in the national capital.
Arvind Kejriwal, the incumbent Chief Minister had resigned from the post of Chief Minister and a 49 day coalition government with the Indian National Congress ended its rule. The national capital was under president’s rule for a year before it went to polls again that saw dramatic shift of fortunes for the Aad Aadmi Party that had won 28 seats in the elections in December 2013.
The assembly elections are all set to take place on February 8 and the counting of votes will take place on February 11, 2020.