AAP announces 5 Lok Sabha poll candidates for Delhi, Haryana; Jal Board vice chairman Somnath Bharti on list
Delhi Chief Minister and party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal. AAP leader Sandeep Pathak made the Lok Sabha candidate list announcement, “There will be a total of 23 (Lok Sabha) candidates of AAP, of which five have already been announced. Today, we are announcing five more candidates of which four are from Delhi and one from Haryana.
Somnath Bharti will be the candidate from New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, Sahi Ram will be candidate from South Delhi Lok Sabha seat, Mahabal Mishra from West Delhi and Kuldeep Kumar from East Delhi. Along with this, Sushil Gupta will be the candidate from Haryana's Kurukshetra." AAP fielded Somnath Bharti, who is also the Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman, from the New Delhi constituency, Kondli MLA Kuldeep Kumar from East Delhi, Sahiram Pehelwan from South Delhi and former MP Mahabal Mishra from the West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. The party declared former Rajya Sabha MP Sushil Gupta its candidate from Kurukshetra in Haryana.
In Delhi, the party has joined hands with INDIA bloc ally Congress for the Lok Sabha polls. The AAP and Congress have arrived at a 4-3 seat-sharing arrangement for Delhi. The AAP had already announced its three candidates for Assam and two for Gujarat.
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