Delhi Assembly Elections: AAP Releases List Of 70 Candidates, 46 Sitting MLAs Get Tickets Again

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced its candidates for all 70 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections on Tuesday. The list of candidates was finalised during the meeting of party's political affairs committee meeting. As expected, AAP repeated most of the candidates who had contested last time. AAP renominated 46 of its sitting MLAs, while it denied tickets to 15 sitting lawmakers. Aam Aadmi Party had tasted stupendous success winning 67 of the 70 Assembly seats in 2015. It currently has a strength of 61 in the Delhi Assembly.

Speaking after the meeting of political affairs committee, Manish Sisodia said, "46 sitting MLAs have been given tickets while 15 sitting MLAs have been replaced. The 9 seats that were vacant have been given to new candidates. We have given tickets to 8 women candidates."

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will again contest from the New Delhi seat, while deputy-CM Manish Sisodia will fight from Patparganj. Atishi Marlena will fight polls from Kalkaji, while Raghav Chadha will get Rajinder Nagar seat. While Marlena is set to contest instead of sitting MLA Avtar Singh, Chadha has been given the ticket in place of sitting MLA Vijender Garg.

Dilip Pandey has been nominated instead of sitting MLA Pankaj Pushkar from Timarpur. Kuldeep Kumar, head of the AAP SC/ST cell, has been fielded instead of sitting MLA Manoj Kumar from Kondli. Former MLA Shoaib Iqbal, who recently AAP from, was given the ticket from the Matia Mahal seat instead of current MLA Asim Ahmed Khan. Ram Singh Netaji has been nominated in place of sitting MLA ND Sharma in Badarpur. Hari Nagar MLA Jagdeep Singh lost his ticket to Rajkumari Dhillon.

Here's full list of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates for Delhi Assembly Polls: