Congress releases first list of 21 candidates for Delhi assembly elections; Abdul Rehman gets ticket — check full list
- The Congress on Thursday released the first list of 21 candidates for the Delhi assembly elections and fielded Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav from the Badli seat.
Delhi Assembly Elections: The Congress on Thursday released the first list of 21 candidates for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.
The party has fielded Sandeep Dikshit from New Delhi, Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President Devender Yadav from Badli, ex-minister Haroon Yusuf from Ballimaran, and Chaudhary Anil Kumar from Patparganj.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA from Seelampur, Abdul Rehman, who joined the Congress just two days ago, has also been fielded from the same constituency.
The list came a day after AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal once again ruled out the possibility of an alliance with the Congress amid reports that the two parties could join hands for the election in the capital.
In a post on X, Kejriwal said the AAP will contest the election on its own strength in Delhi.
"There is no possibility of any alliance with the Congress," the former Delhi chief minister said.
Earlier this month also, Kejriwal had ruled out the possibility of an alliance between his party and the Congress for the Delhi election.
Earlier this week, the Aam Aadmi Party released its second list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Delhi.
The list announced the names of 20 candidates. The Arvind Kejriwal-led party changed former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's seat from Patparganj. He will now contest from the Jangpura seat.
Awadh Ojha has been made a candidate from Sisodia's old seat Patparganj.
The list includes Manish Sisodia from Jangpura, Dinesh Bhardwaj from Narela, Surender Pal Singh Bittu from Timarpur, Mukesh Goel from Adarsh Nagar, Rakesh Jatav Dharamrakshak from Mangolpuri, and Pradeep Mittal from Rohini.
The assembly polls in Delhi are expected to be held in early 2025. The AAP won 62 out of the 70 seats in the 2020 assembly elections and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured eight seats. Out of power in Delhi since 1998, the BJP is making all-out efforts to dethrone the AAP from the capital.
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First Published:12 Dec 2024, 09:27 PM IST
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