The Aam Aadmi Party has announced a total of 67 names in the four lists for the upcoming Delhi assembly election including the names of top party leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi, Satyendra Kumar Jain, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Amanatullah Khan.
The Election Commission is yet to release the date of the elections for Delhi. The current government began with Arvind Kejriwal as the Chief Minister in February 2020 and will officially end on February 15, 2025.
The fourth list of candidates holds the names of some of the senior party leaders, former CM Arvind Kejriwal has been fielded from the New Delhi assembly seat, while the current CM Atishi will contest the elections from the Kalkaji constituency. The other names also include Satyendra Kumar Jain, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Amanatullah Khan.
The third list contained just one name that is Tarun Yadav who has been fielded from Najafgarh.
In the second list, the ruling party has fielded senior party leader Manish Sisodia from the Jangpura seat, moving him from Patparganj seat. Sisodia has been replaced by Educator Avadh Ojha, who has recently joined the party.
The list also includes the names of Jintender Singh Shunty (fielded from Shahdara) and Surinder Pal Singh Bittu (Timarpur), who recently quit the BJP to join the AAP.
Shunty replaces sitting AAP MLA and Speaker in the outgoing Assembly Ram Niwas Goel, while Surinder Bittu has been fielded in place of Dilip Pandey, AAP's chief whip in the house.
The first list of candidates included six turncoats such as former Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Brahm Singh Tanwar, Anil Jha, and BB Tyagi and former Congress leaders Chaudhry Zubair Ahmad, Veer Dhingan and Sumesh Shokeen.
Delhi Assembly Elections 2024 | Full List Of AAP Candidates
Brahm Singh Tanwar - Chhatarpur
Anil Jha - Kirari
Deepak Singhla - Vishwas Nagar
Sarita Singh - Rohtas Nagar
BB Tyagi - Laxmi Nagar
Ram Singh Netaji - Badarpur
Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad - Seelampur
Veer Singh Dhingan - Seemapuri
Gaurav Sharma - Ghonda
Manoj Tyagi - Karawal Nagar
Sumesh Shokeen - Matiala
Manish Sisodia - Jangpura
Joginder Solanki - Palam
Surendar Bharadwaj - Bijwasan
Pravin Kumar - Janakpuri
Rakhi Bidlan - Madipur
Pravesh Ratan - Patel Nagar
Punardeep Singh Sawhney (Saby) - Chandni Chowk
Pradeep Mittal - Rohini
Mangolpuri - Rakesh Jatav Dharamrakshak
Jasbir Karala - Mundka
Mukesh Goel - Adarsh Nagar
Surender Pal Singh Bittu - Timarpur
Dinesh Bhardwaj - Narela
Prem Kumar Chauhan - Deoli
Anjana Parcha - Trilokpuri
Avadh Ojha - Patparganj
Vikas Bagga - Krishna Nagar
Naveen Choudhary (Deepu) - Gandhi Nagar
Padamshri Jitender Singh Shunty - Shahdara
Adil Ahmad Khan - Mustafabad
Tarun Yadav - Najafgarh
Sanjeev Jha - Burari
Ajesh Yadav- Badli
Mohinder Goyal - Rithala
Jai Bhagwan - Bawana
Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat - Sultan Pur Majra
Raghuvinder Shokeen - Nangloi Jat
Bandana Kumari - Shalimar Bagh
Satyendra Kumar Jain - Shakur Basti
Preeti Tomar - Tri Nagar
Rajesh Gupta - Wazirpur
Akhilesh Pati Tripathi - Model Town
Som Dutt - Sadar Bazar
Shoaib Iqbal - Matia Mahal
Imran Hussain - Ballimaran
Vishesh Ravi - Karol Bagh
Shiv Charan Goel - Moti Nagar
Dhanwati Chandela - Rajouri Garden
Raj Kumari Dhillon - Hari Nagar
Jarnail Singh - Tilak Nagar
Mahinder Yadav - Vikaspuri
Posh Balyan (Pooja Naresh Balyan) - Uttam Nagar
Vinay Mishra - Dwarka
Virender Singh Kadian - Delhi Cantonment
Durgesh Pathak - Rajinder Nagar
Arvind Kejriwal - New Delhi
Ramesh Pehalwan - Kasturba Nagar
Somnath Bharti - Malviya Nagar
Pramila Tokas - RK Puram
Naresh Yadav - Mehrauli
Ajay Dutt - Ambedkar Nagar
Dinesh Mohaniya - Sangam Vihar
Saurabh Bharadwaj - Greater Kailash
Atishi - Kalkaji
Sahi Ram - Tughlakabad
Amanatullah Khan - Okhla
AAP's first list of candidates comes after former transport minister and AAP member Kailash Gahlot resigned from the party and joined the BJP.
Delhi Assembly elections were expected to be held in 2025. However, due to the resignation of Arvind Kejriwal, the AAP supremo called for early elections as he stepped down from the post.
Election Commission of India is expected to announce the date of the Delhi polls soon. As per reports, the assembly elections across the national capital are expected to be held by February 2025.
