Delhi Assembly polls: In AAP’s first list of 11 candidates, place for 6 former BJP and Congress leaders

In the Kirari Assembly constituency, the AAP has dropped sitting MLA Ritu Raj and picked Anil Jha, a erstwhile BJP MLA and person who was inducted into the enactment by Kejriwal connected Sunday.

The enactment said Brahm Singh Tanwar, who was besides inducted from the Bharatiya Janata Party aft Chattarpur MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar joined the BJP, volition contention from that Assembly constituency. B B Tyagi volition contention from the Laxmi Nagar constituency. Tyagi, a erstwhile two-time councillor from Laxmi Nagar, joined the AAP successful the archetypal week of November successful the beingness of erstwhile lawman main curate Manish Sisodia.

Somesh Shokeen, the erstwhile Congress MLA from the Matiala Assembly constituency, who besides precocious joined the AAP successful the beingness of Kejriwal, was fixed a summons from the seat. Shokeen is the look of the Jat assemblage and Delhi Rural.

The Kejriwal-led enactment has fixed a summons to erstwhile elder Congress MLA Mateen Ahmad’s lad Zubair Chaudhary, who joined the AAP successful October. Chaudhary volition contention from North East Delhi’s Seelampur constituency.

Another erstwhile Congress person and MLA Vir Singh Dhingan, who joined the AAP past week, volition contention from Seemapuri. Dhingan was inducted into the AAP aft erstwhile societal payment curate and Seemapuri MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam, who was besides the party’s Dalit face, joined the Congress enactment successful September.

The AAP has besides brought successful aged hands and immoderate caller faces to contention the Delhi Assembly elections 2025.

For example, the enactment has repeated Deepak Singla from Vishwas Nagar. Singla contested from the aforesaid spot successful the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections against the BJP’s O P Sharma but mislaid by a borderline of 6,000 votes. He is presently the AAP co-incharge of MCD and successful complaint of Maharashtra and Goa.

The enactment has fixed a summons to Sarita Singh to erstwhile again contention from Rohtas Nagar constituency. Singh was elected from the aforesaid spot successful the 2014 Assembly polls and contested again successful the 2020 Assembly elections but was defeated by BJP MLA Jitender Mahajan. She is presently a subordinate of AAP Mahila Shakti.

The enactment has besides introduced a caller look — Ram Singh Netaji — who volition contention from Badarpur. Netaji joined the AAP successful 2020, and earlier that, helium was with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and besides a two-time Independent MLA.

The enactment has fixed a summons to Gaurav Sharma from Ghonda. In the past Assembly polls, the AAP’s Shri Dutt Sharma contested against BJP person Ajay Mahawar from Ghonda and mislaid by astir 27,000 votes. Manoj Tyagi has been named arsenic the AAP campaigner from Karawal Nagar. Rajinder Nagar MLA Durgesh Pathak contested from this constituency successful the past Assembly polls, but was defeated by BJP person Mohan Singh Bisht.

After the AAP released its database of candidates, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor took a jibe astatine the ruling enactment pointing to the lack of its elder leaders. “When a enactment has to state 6 retired of its archetypal 11 predetermination candidates arsenic outsiders and the enactment president himself oregon immoderate elder person oregon curate does not get a ticket, past recognize that the enactment of that enactment has understood anti-incumbency… Arvind Kejriwal should recognize that present his departure from Delhi is definite and volition hap soon,” said Kapoor.

In the Delhi Assembly predetermination 2020, the AAP registered a landslide triumph by winning 62 of the 70 seats, and the BJP managed to get 8 seats.