New Delhi: Ahead of Delhi assembly election 2020, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday announced the names of 57 out of 70 candidates who are in the fray for the upcoming polls.
BJP Candidate Kapil Mishra will contest from Model Town, while Vijender Gupta from Rohini. Rekha Gupta will contest from Shalimar Bagh and Suman Kumar Gupta will contest from Chandni Chowk.
The meeting of the BJP’s Central Election Committee, called to finalise the names of the candidates for the Delhi polls, went till midnight at the party headquarters on Thursday. The meeting was graced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah and Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari amongst others.
Notably, Delhi will go to polls on February 8, and the counting of votes will take place on February 11.
Here’s the complete first list of BJP candidates:
1. Narela – Neeldaman Khatri
2. Seelampur – Surendra Singh Bittu
3. Adarsh Nagar – Rajkimar Bhatia
4. Badli – Vijay Bhagat
5. Rithala – Manish Chaudhary
6. Bawana – Ravindra Kumar Indraj
7. Mundka – Azad Singh
8. Kirari – Anil Jha
9. Sultanpur Majra – Ramchandra Chhavaria
10. Mangol Puri – Karam Singh Karma
11. Rohini – Vijendra Gupta
12. Shalimar Bagh – Rekha Gupta
13. Shakur Basti – S.C. Vats
14. Trinagar – Tilak Ram Gupta
15. Wazirpur – Mahendra Nagpal
16. Model Town – Kapil Mishra
17. Sadar Bazaar – Jay Prakash
18. Chandni Chowk – Suman Kumar Gupta
19. Matia Mahal – Ravindra Gupta
20. Ballimaran – Lata Sodhi
21. Karol Bagh – Yogendra Chandolia
22. Patel Nagar – Parvesh Ratan
23. Moti Nagar – Subhash Sachdeva
24. Madipur – Kailash Sankhla
25. Tilak Nagar – Rajeev Babbar
26. Janakpuri – Ashish Sood
27. Vikaspuri – Sanjay Singh
28. Uttam Nagar – Krishna Gehlot
29. Dwarka – Pradyumna Rajput
30. Matiala – Rajesh Gehlot
31. Najafgarh – Ajit Kharkhari
32. Bijwasan – Satprakash Rana
33. Palam – Vijay Pandit
34. Rajendra Nagar – R.P. Singh
35. Jangpura – Imrit Singh Bakshi
36. Malviya Nagar – Shailendra Singh Moti
37. R K Puram – Anil Sharma
38. Chhatarpur – Brahm Singh Tanwar
39. Deoli – Arvind Kumar
40. Ambedkar Nagar – Khushi Ram
41. Gretaer Kailash – Shikha Ray
42. Tughlakabad – Vikram Bidhuri
43. Badarpur – Ramveer Singh Bidhuri
44. Okhla – Brahm Singh
45. Trilokpuri – Kiran Vaid
46. Kondli – Rajkumar Dhilli
47. Patparganj – Ravi Negi
48. Lakshmi Nagar – Abhay Kumar Verma
49. Vishwas Nagar – O.P Sharma
50. Gandhi Nagar – Anil Vajpayee
51. Rohtas Nagar – Jitendra Mahajan
52. Seelampur – Kaushal Mishra
53. Ghonda – Ajay Mahavar
54. Baburpur – Naresh Gaud
55. Gokulpur – Ranjeet Kashyap
56. Mustafabad – Jagdish Pradhan
57. Karawal Nagar – Mohan Singh Bisht
In the previous assembly elections, the BJP had won only three assembly seats, while the AAP had won 67. The BJP has been out of power in Delhi for the last 20 years and faces an uphill battle to unseat the ruling AAP.
The elections will witness a triangular contest with the Congress being the third major player as political watchers believe that the BJP and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP are likely to be the main rivals in most of the seats.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had on Tuesday released its list of candidates for all 70 seats. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will contest from New Delhi constituency, while Deputy CM Manish Sisodia will contest from Patparganj Assembly seat. (Here’s the story link)