New Delhi:
With lower than a month to go for the Delhi Meeting elections, the BJP has launched its second listing of 29 candidates. The listing consists of Delhi BJP Vice President Kapil Mishra – a former minister 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 in opposition to AAP’s former minister Satyendar Jain from Shakur Basti and Mr Khurana has been fielded from Moti Nagar. Parvesh Verma, who’s the son of former Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma, had been named within the social gathering’s first listing.
Just 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 12 months later after referring to websites the place protests had been going down in opposition to the Citizenship Modification 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 previous AAP chief featured within the first listing and shall be contesting from Bijwasan.
The BJP has named 5 ladies within the second listing, taking its variety of ladies candidates to seven to this point.
With Saturday’s listing, the social gathering has now named candidates for 58 of Delhi’s 70 seats. The primary listing included the names of Parvesh Verma, former MP Ramesh Bidhuri and former Congress chief and minister Arvinder Singh Beautiful.
In search of 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 to this point.
Delhi will vote on February 5 and counting of votes shall be held on February 8.