Arvind Kejriwal expressed the party’s “full confidence and thorough preparation” for the Delhi Assembly elections.
New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday released the fourth and final list of 38 candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Delhi. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi will once again contest from Kalkaji, while former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will contest from New Delhi.
Gopal Rai, the environment minister, will seek to retain his seat in Babarpur while Health Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj will contest from the Greater Kailash seat. Former Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain will seek re-election from the Shakur Basti constituency.
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Interestingly, the party has replaced incumbent MLA of Kasturba Nagar, Madan Lal, with Ramesh Pehlwan. Both Pehlwan and his wife, councillor Kusum Lata, joined the party earlier today after quitting the BJP.
Shortly after the announcement of the final list of candidates, Arvind Kejriwal expressed the party’s “full confidence and thorough preparation” for the Delhi Assembly elections. “The BJP is nowhere to be seen. They have no CM face, no team, no planning, and no vision for Delhi. They have only one slogan, one policy, and one mission—’Remove Kejriwal.’ Ask them what they did in 5 years, and they reply – “Kejriwal ko bahub gaali di’”
In an X post, the AAP supremo added, “Our party has a vision and a plan for the development of Delhiites and a good team of educated people to implement it. There is a long list of works done in the last ten years. People of Delhi will vote for those who work, not those who abuse.”
आज आम आदमी पार्टी ने सभी 70 सीटों पर अपने उम्मीदवार घोषित कर दिए। पार्टी पूरे आत्मविश्वास और पूरी तैयारी के साथ चुनाव लड़ रही है।
बीजेपी गायब है। उनके पास ना CM चेहरा है, ना टीम है, ना प्लानिंग है और ना दिल्ली के लिए कोई विज़न है। उनका केवल एक ही नारा है, केवल एक ही नीति है और… https://t.co/OQ4ehsfKHY
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 15, 2024
Other candidates in the list include Sanjeev Jha (Burari), Ajesh Yadav (Badli), Jai Bhagwan (Rithala), Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat (Sultan Pur Majra), Raghuvinder Shokeen (Nangloi Jat), Bandana Kumari (Shalimar Bagh), Preeti Tomar (Tri Nagar), Rajesh Gupta (Wazirpur), Akhilesh Pati Tripathi (Model Town), Som Dutt (Sadar Bazar), Shoaib Iqbal (Matia Mahal), and Imran Hussain (Ballimaran).
Vishesh Ravi (Karol Bagh), Shiv Charan Goel (Moti Nagar), Dhanwati Chandela (Rajouri Garden), Mahinder Yadav (Vikaspuri), Vinay Mishra (Dwarka), Durgesh Pathak (Rajinder Nagar), Somnath Bharti (Malviya Nagar), Naresh Yadav (Mehrauli), Jarnail Singh (Tilak Nagar), Dinesh Mohaniya (Sangam Vihar) and Pramila Tokas (RK Puram) are some of the other candidates announced.
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The ruling party released the first list of 11 candidates on November 21. Dropping three sitting MLAs, the party named six candidates who had recently defected from the BJP and Congress.
The Delhi Assembly elections for the 70 constituencies are expected to be held in February next year. The current term of the Assembly ends on February 23, 2025. In the 2020 Assembly polls, AAP secured a massive victory, winning 62 out of 70 seats, while BJP won 8 seats. However, the Congress failed to secure any seats in the election.
