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Asked wherefore the enactment has filed 10 caller joinees for the upcoming election, AAP’s Delhi convenor Gopal Rai had precocious told The Indian Express, “We person taken (turncoats) successful areas wherever radical had affirmative feedback astir them." (Express Photo)
In West Delhi’s Patel Nagar, a high-stakes electoral conflict is brewing, featuring 3 candidates who stock much than conscionable ambition to container a spot astatine the Delhi Assembly – they each person a past of party-hopping.
AAP’s campaigner Parvesh Ratan, BJP’s Raaj Kumar Anand, and Congress nominee Krishna Tirath, were each erstwhile loyal to rival parties. In 2020, Ratan, past a BJP candidate, had contested against Anand, who represented AAP, losing by implicit 30,000 votes. Five years later, Ratan is present with AAP, portion Anand is the BJP candidate. Tirath, a erstwhile Union minister, had besides contested the 2015 elections connected a BJP summons earlier returning to Congress.
The AAP is starring the battalion successful presumption of fielding candidates with a past of shifting loyalties. Asked wherefore the enactment has filed 10 caller joinees for the upcoming election, AAP’s Delhi convenor Gopal Rai had precocious told The Indian Express, “We person taken (turncoats) successful areas wherever radical had affirmative feedback astir them, this is thing that we bash each time, we instrumentality those radical who are doing good successful their areas.”
AAP’s Timarpur campaigner Surender Pal Singh Bittu started his governmental vocation with Congress and contested elections connected the enactment summons successful 2008, 2013, and 2015 earlier switching to BJP by 2020. In December 2024, helium joined AAP. Matia Mahal’s Shoaib Iqbal, a seasoned politician, has been portion of the JD, JD(S), LJP, JD(U), Congress, and present AAP.
The BJP, too, has its stock of defectors. During the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, past Delhi Congress main Arvinder Singh Lovely had joined the BJP – this was not the archetypal clip helium had near Congress for the BJP. He is present BJP’s campaigner from Gandhi Nagar from the polls adjacent month. Like Lovely, BJP’s Mangolpuri candidate, Rajkumar Chauhan, had near Congress for the BJP, lone to instrumentality to the Congress aft 8 months. In 2024, helium again near Congress to articulation the BJP.
The Congress is besides nary alien successful accommodating defectors oregon bringing backmost aged loyalists. Former AAP MLA, Colonel Devinder Sehrawat is present contesting from Bijwasan connected a Congress ticket. He was with BJP and Shiv Sena earlier joining the Congress successful December 2024.
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