New Delhi, Jan 17, 2020-
The BJP on Friday released its first list of candidates for the February 8 Delhi Assembly elections, comprising 57 names including senior leader Vijender Gupta who will fight from Rohini and AAP rebel Kapil Mishra from Model Town.
Gupta was among the BJP’s three winning candidates in the 2015 elections, while Mishra is a former AAP minister who rebelled and joined the BJP.
BJP’s national Secretary R.P. Singh is being fielded from Rajinder Nagar, while Shikha Rai is the candidate from the upscale Greater Kailash. From Tughlaqabad, the candidate is Vikram Bidhuri, a relative of BJP’s South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri.
The list was released by BJP’s Delhi Chief Manoj Tiwari who claimed that his party is confident of a win in the state, where it has been out of power since 1998.
On being asked about the remaining 13 candidates, Tiwari said the party will come up with the names “soon.”.
The list comes after the BJP’s Central Election Committee meeting which started on late on Thursday and ended a little after 11 p.m.
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister and BJP President Amit Shah, working President J.P. Nadda, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Thawarchand Gehlot and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan among others. In fact, PM Modi left the BJP headquarters, where the meeting was taking place, only around 11.40 p.m.
Earlier this week, Amit Shah held a series of BJP core group meeting at his residence, some of which ran till 3 a.m. to shortlist the candidates. Nadda, General Secretary (Organisation) B.L. Santosh, party’s Delhi in-charge Prakash Javadekar, Manoj Tiwari among others were present in that meeting.
Delhi will go to poll on February 8 and the results will be out on February 11. (Agency)
Here’s the list of candidates:
Narela: Neldaman Khatri
Timarpur: Surendra Singh Bittu
Adarsh Nagar: Rajkmar bhati
Badali: Vijay Bhagat
Rithala: Manish Chaudharry
Bawana (SC): Ravindra Kumar Indraj
Mundka: Mastar Azad Singh
Kirari (SC): Anil Jha
Sultanpur Majra (SC): Ramchandra Chawdia
Mangol Puri (SC): Kamarsingh Karma
Rohini: Vijendra Gupta
Shalimar Bagh: Rekha Gupta
Sakur Basti: Dr SC Vats
Trinagar: Tilak Ram Gupta
Wazirpur: Dr Mahendra Nagpal
Model Town: Kapil Mishra
Sadar Bazar: Jai Prakash
Chandi Chowk: Suman Kumar Gupta
Matia Mahal: Ravindra Gupta
Ballimaran: Lata Sodhi
Karol Bagh (SC): Yogendra Chandolia
Patel Nagar (SC): Pravesh Ratan
Moti Nagar: Subhas Sachedeva
Madipur (SC): Kailash Sankla
Tilak Nagar: Rajiv Babbar
Janak Puri: Ashish Sood
Vikas Puri: Sanjay Singh
Uttam Nagar: Krishan Gehlot
Dwarka: Praduman Rajput
Matiala: Rajesh Gehlot
Nazafgarh: Ajit Kharkhari
Brijwasan: Satyaprakash Rana
Palam: Vijay Pandit
Rajendra Nagar: RP Singh
Jungpura: Sardar Impreet Singh Bakshi
Malviya Nagar: Shailendra Singh Monty
RK Puram: Anil Sharma
Chattarpur: Bramha Singh Tanwar
Deoli (SC): Arvind Kumar
Ambedkar Nagar: (SC): Kishiram
Greater Kailash: Shikha Rai
Tughlaqabad: Vikram Bidhuri (neice of Ramesh Bidhuri)
Badarpur: Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
Okhla: Bramha Singh
Trilok Puri (SC): Kiran Vaidya
Kondli: (SC): Rajkumar Dhillo
Patparganj: Negi
Laxmi Nagar: Ajay Kumar Varma
Vishwas Nagar: OP Sharma
Gandhi Nagar: Anil Bajpayee
Rohtas Nagar: Jitendra Mahajan
Seelam Pur: Kaushal Mishra
Gonda: Ajay Mahawat
Babarpur: Naresh Gaur
Gopulpuri (SC): Ranjit Kashyap
Mustafabad: Jagdish Pradhan
Karawal Nagar: Mohan Singh Bisht
