The Aam Aadmi Celebration Thursday launched its first record of 11 candidates for the Delhi Meeting polls scheduled in February 2025, bringing in six leaders who have been not too long ago inducted into the AAP from the BJP and Congress.
The names have been finalised throughout the AAP’s Political Affairs Committee (PAC) assembly chaired by the get together’s chief Arvind Kejriwal. AAP chief Gopal Rai stated, “Most of most of those 11 seats are these the place the AAP is just not in energy and the BJP has MLAs in these constituencies at current resembling Ghonda, Karawal Nagar, and Rohtas Nagar”.
Within the Kirari Meeting constituency, the AAP has dropped sitting MLA Ritu Raj and picked Anil Jha, a former BJP MLA and chief who was inducted into the get together by Kejriwal on Sunday.
The get together stated Brahm Singh Tanwar, who was additionally inducted from the Bharatiya Janata Celebration after Chattarpur MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar joined the BJP, will contest from that Meeting constituency. B B Tyagi will contest from the Laxmi Nagar constituency. Tyagi, a former two-time councillor from Laxmi Nagar, joined the AAP within the first week of November within the presence of former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.
Somesh Shokeen, the previous Congress MLA from the Matiala Meeting constituency, who additionally not too long ago joined the AAP within the presence of Kejriwal, was given a ticket from the seat. Shokeen is the face of the Jat group and Delhi Rural.
The Kejriwal-led get together has given a ticket to former senior Congress MLA Mateen Ahmad’s son Zubair Chaudhary, who joined the AAP in October. Chaudhary will contest from North East Delhi’s Seelampur constituency.
One other former Congress chief and MLA Vir Singh Dhingan, who joined the AAP final week, will contest from Seemapuri. Dhingan was inducted into the AAP after former social welfare minister and Seemapuri MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam, who was additionally the get together’s Dalit face, joined the Congress get together in September.
The AAP has additionally introduced in outdated fingers and a few new faces to contest the Delhi Meeting elections 2025.
For instance, the get together has repeated Deepak Singla from Vishwas Nagar. Singla contested from the identical seat within the 2020 Delhi Meeting elections in opposition to the BJP’s O P Sharma however misplaced by a margin of 6,000 votes. He’s at the moment the AAP co-incharge of MCD and in control of Maharashtra and Goa.
The get together has given a ticket to Sarita Singh to as soon as once more contest from Rohtas Nagar constituency. Singh was elected from the identical seat within the 2014 Meeting polls and contested once more within the 2020 Meeting elections however was defeated by BJP MLA Jitender Mahajan. She is at the moment a member of AAP Mahila Shakti.
The get together has additionally launched a brand new face — Ram Singh Netaji — who will contest from Badarpur. Netaji joined the AAP in 2020, and earlier than that, he was with the Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) and in addition a two-time Unbiased MLA.
The get together has given a ticket to Gaurav Sharma from Ghonda. Within the final Meeting polls, the AAP’s Shri Dutt Sharma contested in opposition to BJP chief Ajay Mahawar from Ghonda and misplaced by about 27,000 votes. Manoj Tyagi has been named because the AAP candidate from Karawal Nagar. Rajinder Nagar MLA Durgesh Pathak contested from this constituency within the final Meeting polls, however was defeated by BJP chief Mohan Singh Bisht.
After the AAP launched its record of candidates, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor took a jibe on the ruling get together pointing to the absence of its senior leaders. “When a celebration has to declare 6 out of its first 11 election candidates as outsiders and the get together president himself or any senior chief or minister doesn’t get a ticket, then perceive that the management of that get together has understood anti-incumbency… Arvind Kejriwal ought to perceive that now his departure from Delhi is for certain and can occur quickly,” stated Kapoor.
Within the Delhi Meeting election 2020, the AAP registered a landslide victory by profitable 62 of the 70 seats, and the BJP managed to get 8 seats.
