NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday released its final list of 38 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. Delhi chief minister Atishi will contest from Kalkaji, whereas AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal will contest from the New Delhi seat.
Environment minister Gopal Rai, will seek to retain his seat in Babarpur. Health minister Saurabh Bhardwaj will contest from the Greater Kailash constituency. The list also includes former Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain, who will seek re-election from Shakur Basti.
Alongside Kejriwal’s bid for New Delhi, where he has won since 2013 the AAP faces significant competition. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expected to field Parvesh Verma, the son of former Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma, while Congress has announced Sandeep Dikshit, son of Sheila Dikshit, the city’s longest-serving chief minister.
Kejriwal while sharing the parties list, took a potshot at the BJP alleging that the saffron party has no CM face.
“BJP is missing. They have no CM face, no team, no planning and no vision for Delhi. They have only one slogan, only one policy and only one mission – ‘Remove Kejriwal,’ he said in his post on X.
Other candidates in AAP’s list include Sanjeev Jha from Burari, Ajesh Yadav from Badli, and Durgesh Pathak from Rajinder Nagar. The party has fielded Amanatullah Khan from Okhla.
The party aims to retain its stronghold after securing 62 out of 70 seats in the 2020 polls. Kejriwal, on multiple occassions has ruled out any alliance with Congress, despite both parties being part of the INDIA bloc. He said, “Aam Aadmi Party will fight this election on its own strength in Delhi.”
Meanwhile, Congress held a meeting on Thursday at its AICC headquarters, strategising for the upcoming elections. The party, which ruled Delhi for 15 consecutive years but has struggled in recent polls, appointed Priyavrat Singh as the chairman of its “war room.”
Here is the full list:
| Assembly Constituency | Candidate Name |
|---|---|
| Burari | Sanjeev Jha |
| Badli | Ajesh Yadav |
| Rithala | Mohinder Goyal |
| Bawana | Jai Bhagwan |
| Sultan Pur Majra | Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat |
| Nangloi Jat | Raghuvinder Shokeen |
| Shalimar Bagh | Bandana Kumari |
| Shakur Basti | Satyendar Kumar Jain |
| Tri Nagar | Preeti Tomar |
| Wazirpur | Rajesh Gupta |
| Model Town | Akhilesh Pati Tripathi |
| Sadar Bazar | Som Dutt |
| Matia Mahal | Shoaib Iqbal |
| Ballimaran | Imran Hussain |
| Karol Bagh | Vishesh Ravi |
| Moti Nagar | Shiv Charan Goel |
| Rajouri Garden | Dhanwati Chandela |
| Hari Nagar | Raj Kumari Dhillon |
| Tilak Nagar | Jarnail Singh |
| Vikaspuri | Mahinder Yadav |
| Uttam Nagar | Posh Balyan (Pooja Naresh Balyan) |
| Dwarka | Vinay Mishra |
| Delhi Cantonment | Virender Singh Kadian |
| Rajinder Nagar | Durgesh Pathak |
| New Delhi | Arvind Kejriwal |
| Kasturba Nagar | Ramesh Pehalwan |
| Malviya Nagar | Somnath Bharti |
| R K Puram | Pramila Tokas |
| Mehrauli | Naresh Yadav |
| Ambedkar Nagar | Ajay Dutt |
| Sangam Vihar | Dinesh Mohaniya |
| Greater Kailash | Saurabh Bharadwaj |
| Kalkaji | Atishi |
| Tughlakabad | Sahi Ram |
| Okhla | Amanatullah Khan |
| Kondli | Kuldeep Kumar |
| Babarpur | Gopal Rai |
| Gokalpur | Surendra Kumar |