The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) on Saturday launched the primary record of 29 candidates for the upcoming Delhi meeting elections, fielding former Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) ministers Kailash Gahlot from Bijwasan and Raj Kumar Anand from Patel Nagar, and former Delhi Congress chief Arvind Singh Pretty from Gandhi Nagar.
Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal.
The get together has pitted former chief minister Sahib Singh Verma’s son Pravesh Sahib Singh Verma towards Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi seat, and former South Delhi member of Parliament (MP) Ramesh Bidhuri towards chief minister Atishi in Kalkaji.
The New Delhi constituency is now set to see a big-ticket battle amongst a former chief minister and the sons of two former CMs because the Congress has already fielded former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit from the seat. The Congress has Mahila Congress chief Alka Lamba towards Atishi in Kalkaji.
The BJP has given the Gandhi Nagar seat to Pretty, who joined the get together in the course of the Lok Sabha polls, after dropping its sitting MLA Anil Kumar Bajpai. The get together has retained its sitting MLAs Ajay Mahwar (Ghonda), Jitendra Mahajan (Rohtas Nagar), Vijender Gupta (Rohini) and OP Sharma (Vishwas Nagar) for his or her respective seats.
The BJP’s first record is a mixture of get together leaders, defectors from the AAP in addition to the Congress, sitting MLAs and former MPs. The record of 29 has solely two girls candidates– Rekha Gupta from Shalimar Bagh and Kumari Rinku from Seemapuri.
Former AAP MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar, who just lately joined the BJP, has been fielded from Chhatarpur and former Congress MLA Raj Kumar Chauhan has been fielded from Mangolpuri seat.
The BJP has fielded former MLA Tarvinder Singh Marwah towards AAP chief and former deputy CM Manish Sisodia in Jangpura. Sisodia, who represented Patparganj seat between 2013-2024, has shifted to Jangpura for the 2025 meeting election.
AAP has introduced all 70 candidates for the 70 seats in Delhi. The Congress has introduced 48 candidates thus far.
“I congratulate all the candidates who are a perfect mix of experience and popularity. They will defeat the AAP candidates in their respective constituencies and win the election. The AAP has done no work in the last 10 years and Arvind Kejriwal looks devoid of narrative and vision and lacks any work in the last five years to show to the people other than a long list of corruption, and scams. The naming of the candidates will help further intensify our preparations and BJP will form the next government in Delhi,” Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva mentioned.
AAP’s response is awaited.
Meeting elections for the 70 seats of Delhi are seemingly in February this yr because the time period of the present meeting is ready to run out on February 23.
In 2020, AAP received 62 and BJP 8 seats within the 70-member meeting. At current, the AAP holds 58 seats, as 4 of its members have both resigned or been disqualified, and the BJP has seven after sitting BJP MLA from Badarpur Ramvir Singh Bidhuri resigned in June after he was elected to the Lok Sabha from south Delhi.
The schedule of the 2025 polls is prone to be introduced subsequent week.