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Business News/ Elections 2019 / Lok Sabha Elections 2019/  In Delhi, the ball is now in Congress and AAP’s court
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In Delhi, the ball is now in Congress and AAP’s court

With the last date of nominations in Delhi on Tuesday, key parties including the BJP and Congress had refrained from announcing their candidates
  • Even as alliance talks were on, the AAP had announced names of candidates for all seven seats
  • Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Photo: PTIPremium
    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Photo: PTI

    Less than two days for the last date to file nominations in Delhi, the ball is now in Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) court as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) releases its list of four candidates from the national capital.

    With the last date of nominations in Delhi on Tuesday, key parties including the BJP and Congress had refrained from announcing their candidates in the backdrop of ongoing alliance talks between the Congress and the AAP in the national capital. With the talks having reached the dead end, the deadlock has now been broken.

    With hours to go, the Congress is yet to announce names of candidates and the AAP had delayed the process of filing nominations in Delhi.

    On Sunday, the BJP announced the names of four sitting members of Parliament (MP). The party has retained their sitting MPs Harshvardhan in Chandni Chowk, Manoj Tiwari in North East Delhi, Parvesh Verma in West Delhi and Ramesh Bidhuri in South Delhi. The BJP had won all the seven seats in Delhi in the 2014 general elections.

    Even as alliance talks were on, the AAP had announced names of candidates for all seven seats. Senior leaders in the AAP say that the party did not want to waste time and get their ground campaign running. On Monday, six candidates of the party including Raghav Chadha from South Delhi, Atishi Marlena from East Delhi will file their nominations.

    The Congress and AAP have been political rivals in the state but were exploring an alliance to pool together anti-BJP votes. Senior leaders of both the parties say that alliance talks have failed to come to a positive conclusion. A key point of contention was the AAP’s demand to extend the alliance to the states of Haryana, Chandigarh and Punjab.

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    Published: 22 Apr 2019, 09:38 AM IST
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