AAP Releases 2 Lists For Delhi Elections: Solely 5 Of 31 Candidates Are Repeaters – News18
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The AAP bagged two back-to-back elections in Delhi with a transparent majority. In 2015, it bagged 67 of 70 seats, and in 2020, it received 62 seats
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal is aiming to repeat the occasion’s efficiency. (File)
The Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) on Monday launched its second candidate record with 20 names. Solely two sitting MLAs, Manish Sisodia and Rakhi Bidlan, have been repeated, however from seats totally different than these in 2020.
Up to now, the occasion has introduced 31 of the whole 70 candidates, and aside from these two MLAs, three failed candidates from 2020 have been repeated.
For Gandhi Nagar, a seat bagged by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) in 2020, the occasion has once more trusted its failed candidate Naveen Choudhary (Deepu) within the second record.
Within the first record of 11 candidates, issued in November, solely two names from 2020 had been repeated – Deepak Singhal, who did not win the Vishwas Nagar seat, has been given one other probability. Sarita Singh, one other failed candidate from 2020, has been renamed from Rohtas Nagar.
On the remaining 26 seats, the occasion has trusted new names for the 2025 elections. On virtually half of those seats, the occasion both trusted sitting or former councillors. A minimum of three candidates had been former councillors, together with two from Congress, whereas 9 had been sitting councillors of the occasion.
On Sunday, News18 had reported that many new names and contemporary faces could be given house within the lists anticipated within the subsequent few days, whereas extra incumbent MLAs is likely to be dropped.
WHO WAS DROPPED? WHO GOT A CHANCE?
Among the many names that had been dropped within the newest record included Timarpur MLA Dilip Pandey, as reported on Sunday. Shahdara MLA Ram Niwas Goel had additionally not been included after he introduced his retirement from electoral politics.
Pandey was changed with Surender Pal Singh Bittu. Bittu fought towards Pandey within the 2020 polls as a BJP candidate and misplaced. Bittu is a former MLA from the seat from BJP. Equally, Goel, elected in 2015 and 2020, defeated then BJP candidate Jitender Singh Shunty in 2015 with round 12,000 votes in Shahdara. Shunty is the brand new AAP face from the seat. Each Bittu and Shunty joined AAP earlier this month.
News18 additionally reported that within the Patel Nagar seat, the place AAP MLA Raaj Kumar Anand was elected in 2020, the occasion may area ex-BJP Yuva Morcha chief Parvesh Ratan, who joined the AAP this month. In 2020, Ratan had contested the elections from the Patel Nagar meeting constituency however was defeated by AAP’s Anand. In July, Anand moved to the BJP.
In Deoli, three-time MLA Prakash Jarwal has been dropped, and Prem Kumar Chauhan, present AAP councillor, will combat. Trilokpuri MLA Rohit Kumar Mehraulia has additionally been dropped, and Anjana Parcha, a former councillor, has been chosen for Trilokpuri.
Among the many MLAs dropped was two-time winner from Jangpura Praveen Kumar. Former deputy chief minister and training minister Sisodia had changed him in Jangpura. Sisodia was the MLA from Patparganj, elected in 2013, 2015 and 2020. However this time, he has been changed with civil companies trainer Avadh Ojha, who joined AAP earlier this month.
Similar to Sisodia, three-time Mangolpuri MLA Bidlan has been moved from her conventional seat. The occasion has given her the Madipur meeting for 2025, dropping one other three-time MLA Girish Soni. In Mangolpuri, councillor Rakesh Jatav Dharamrakshak had been given the prospect.
Sharad Chauhan from Narela, who gained in 2015 and 2020, had additionally been dropped and was changed by Arjuna awardee Dinesh Bhardwaj, who served because the Captain of the Indian nationwide kabaddi group that gained Asiad gold medals in 2002 and 2006. Bhardwaj is a sitting councillor of AAP.
Pawan Kumar Sharma was elected from Adarsh Nagar in 2015 and 2020. The occasion has dropped his title and determined to area Adarsh Nagar ward councillor Mukesh Goel, who can be the Chief of Home in Municipal Company of Delhi.
Rajesh Rishi was elected from Janakpuri in 2015 and 2020. However right here additionally, the occasion has trusted Janakpuri councillor Pravin Kumar for the combat.
Two-time Palam MLA Bhavna Gaur has additionally been dropped, and social employee Joginder Solanki has been given an opportunity.
Mustafabad MLA Haji Yunus has been changed by Adil Ahmad Khan – the state secretary of the occasion.
Similar to in 2020, Mundka will get a brand new face this time too. Jasbir Karala, who moved to AAP from Congress in 2021, will combat for the seat for AAP. Karala is a sitting councillor of AAP. In 2020 additionally, the occasion changed then-sitting MLA Sukhbir Singh Dalal and trusted Dharampal Lakra, who additionally moved to AAP from Congress.
An identical story is repeated in Bijwasan, the place the sitting MLA was dropped identical to 2020. A former Samajwadi Occasion chief and AAP councillor, Surendar Bharadwaj, has changed sitting MLA Bhupender Singh Joon for the 2025 battle. Again in 2020, the occasion needed to change Devinder Sehrawat, the MLA elected in 2015, after he stop AAP little earlier than the polls.
In 2020, the AAP fielded Parlad Singh Sawhney from Chandani Chowk after Alka Lamba, the then-sitting MLA, turned insurgent. Sawhney was the four-time MLA from Congress and moved to AAP in 2019. The occasion dropped him for the 2025 elections, and his son, Purandeep Singh Sawhney, who’s an AAP Councillor from Chandni Chowk, has been named from AAP.
Two-time MLA S Okay Bagga has additionally been changed by his son Vikas Bagga in Krishna Nagar.
In Rohini, one other seat bagged by the BJP in 2015 and 2020, the occasion has named sitting councillor Pradeep Mittal.
The AAP bagged two back-to-back elections in Delhi with a transparent majority. In 2015, it bagged 67 of 70 seats, and in 2020 it received 62 seats. For the 2025 elections, the occasion goals for the same outcome.
In each the 2015 and 2020 polls, the BJP took away the remaining seats in Delhi. Whereas the AAP has already launched multi-level campaigning and introduced virtually half of its candidates, the BJP is but to kickstart a mega marketing campaign within the metropolis, that can go for polls within the subsequent few weeks.
