New Delhi:
With lower than a month to go for the Delhi Assembly elections, the BJP has launched its second checklist of 29 candidates. The checklist consists of Delhi BJP Vice President Kapil Mishra – a former MLA who was earlier with the AAP – who has been fielded from the Karawal Nagar constituency, and former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana’s son Harish Khurana.
BJP chief Karnail Singh will contest towards AAP’s former minister Satyendar Jain from Shakur Basti. Parvesh Verma, who’s the son of former Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma, had been named within the get together’s first checklist.
Only one sitting MLA – Mohan Singh Bisht – has been dropped from Karawal Nagar, most likely to accommodate Mr Mishra, who represented the constituency earlier, when he was with the AAP. Mr Mishra joined the BJP in 2019 and made headlines a yr later after referring to websites the place protests had been going down towards the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as “mini-Pakistans”. He had additionally issued an ultimatum to the Delhi Police to clear anti-CAA protesters from Jaffrabad and Chandbagh or face the implications.
Neelam Krishan Pahalwan, who was elected because the BJP councillor from the Dichaon Kalan ward with the best variety of votes, will contest from Najafgarh, which was the constituency of former Delhi minister and up to date BJP entrant Kailash Gahlot. The former AAP chief featured within the first checklist and might be contesting from Bijwasan.
The BJP has named 5 girls within the second checklist, taking its variety of girls candidates to seven thus far.
With Saturday’s checklist, the get together has now named candidates for 58 of Delhi’s 70 seats. The first checklist included the names of Parvesh Verma, former MP Ramesh Bidhuri and former Congress chief and minister Arvinder Singh Lovely.
Seeking to achieve a first-mover benefit, the AAP had declared candidates for all 70 seats in December itself, whereas the Congress has named 47 candidates thus far.
Delhi will vote on February 5 and counting of votes might be held on February 8.