Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi are contesting the polls from New Delhi and Kalkaji, respectively
Arvind Kejriwal will contest the upcoming Delhi Assembly election from his present constituency New Delhi, the fourth and final listing of candidates Aam Aadmi Party launched immediately reveals. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Gopal Rai are sticking to their present seats, Kalkaji, Greater Kailash and Babarpur, respectively.
AAP has now launched the names of its candidates for all 70 seats within the Delhi Assembly. Shortly after AAP launched its closing listing of candidates, Mr Kejriwal stated the occasion would contest these polls with full confidence and preparations.
“The BJP is invisible. They haven’t got a Chief Minister face, a staff or a plan, or a imaginative and prescient for Delhi. They have only one slogan and lacking — ‘take away Kejriwal’. Ask them what they’ve achieved for 5 years, they may say ‘we abused Kejriwal’,” stated the previous Chief Minister, who has resigned from the put up and stated he would return solely after the decision within the “individuals’s courtroom”
Mr Kejriwal stated AAP has a imaginative and prescient for the event of Delhi and its individuals, a plan and a staff of educated leaders to implement this. “We have an inventory of labor we’ve got achieved in 10 years. Delhi residents will vote for many who work, not those that abuse,” he stated. Assembly polls in Delhi are more likely to be held in February.
By fielding Mr Kejriwal, Ms Atishi and prime ministers from seats they at present symbolize, AAP has additionally responded to the BJP’s dare after the ruling occasion launched its second listing of candidates. When former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia moved from his present seat Patparganj to Jangpura, Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva had claimed that many AAP MLAs did not need to contest the polls as a result of they feared defeat. “(Former) Deputy Chief Minister (Sisodia) has fled, think about the concern. Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi will flee too,” he had stated.
Another key title on AAP’s fourth listing is senior occasion chief and former minister Satyendra Jain. Mr Jain, arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case in 2022 and granted bail in October, has been repeated from the Shakur Basti seat he at present holds. This factors to the occasion’s rock-solid assist for him. In west Delhi’s Uttam Nagar constituency, AAP has fielded Pooja Balyan, spouse of sitting MLA Naresh Balyan. This comes a month after Mr Balyan’s comment, wherein he promised to make roads as “easy as Hema Malini’s cheeks” sparked a row and earned him a rap from the National Commission for Women.
Other key names on the fourth listing are senior AAP chief Durgesh Pathak, who will contest from his present seat Rajinder Nagar, and Amanatullah Khan, who has been repeated in Okhla.
Senior AAP chief Somnath Bharti has additionally been repeated from the Malviya Nagar seat. In a put up on X quickly after AAP launched its listing, Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva stated AAP’s “anti-women” mindset is now out within the open.