BJP releases first list for Delhi polls: Parvesh Verma to challenge Kejriwal, Ramesh Bidhuri to face Atishi
Delhi assembly polls, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its first list of candidates, awarding tickets to four sitting legislators, two former MPs, and eight former MLAs. The elections are scheduled for February this year. AAP has already announced candidates for all 70 seats, while Congress has named 48 candidates so far.
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Here is a list of key contests in Delhi elections:
- Former West Delhi MP Parvesh Verma from BJP will contest against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in the New Delhi assembly constituency.
- Former South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri, representing the saffron party, will contest against Chief Minister Atishi in Kalkaji. The Congress has nominated Alka Lamba as its candidate for the constituency.
- Former Congress MLA Tarwinder Singh Marwah who is now with BJP, will contest from Jangpura against former Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia.
Meanwhile, four former Delhi ministers – Kailash Gahlot and Raaj Kumar Anand, who served in the outgoing AAP government, along with Arvinder Singh Lovely and Rajkumar Chauhan, who held key portfolios during Sheila Dikshit’s government from 2003 to 2013 – have also been given tickets by the BJP.
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