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

Delhi Assembly Elections: Aam Aadmi Party releases list of candidates, CM Arvind Kejriwal to contest from New Delhi

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

Delhi Assembly Elections: Aam Aadmi Party releases list of candidates, CM Arvind Kejriwal to contest from New Delhi ( Photo Credit : PTI File)

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."

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:

Serial No./Seat/Candidate
1Narela Sharad Chauhan
2BurariSanjeev Jha
3TimarpurDilip Pandey
4Adarsh NagarPawan Sharma
5BadliAjesh Yadav
6RithalaMahinder Goyal
7BawanaJai Bhagwan Upkar
8MundkaDharampal Lakra
9KirariRituraj Jha
10Sultanpur MajraMukesh Kumar Ahlawat
11Nangloi JatRaghuvinder Shokeen
12Mangol PuriRakhi Bidlan
13RohiniRajesh Nama Bansiwala
14Shalimar BaghBandana Kumari
15Shakur BastiSatyendra Jain
16Tri NagarJitender Tomar
17Wazirpur Rajesh Gupta
18Model TownAkhilesh Pati Tripathi
19Sadar BazarSom Dutt
20Chandni ChowkParlad Singh Sawhney
21Matia MahalShoaib Iqbal
22BallimaranImran Hussain
23Karol BaghVishesh Ravi
24Patel NagarRaaj Kumar Anand
25Moti NagarShiv Charan Goel
26MadipurGirish Soni
27Rajouri GardenDhanwati Chandela
28Hari NagarRajkumari Dhillon
29Tilak NagarJarnail Singh
30JanakpurRajesh Rishi
31VikaspuriMahinder Yadav
32Uttam NagarNaresh Balyan
33DwarkaVinay Kumar Mishra
34MatialaGulab Singh Yadav
35NajafgarhKailash Gahlot
36BijwasanBS Joon
37PalamBhavna Gaur
38Delhi CantonmentVirender Singh Kadian
39Rajinder NagarRaghav Chadha
40New DelhiArvind Kejriwal
41JangpuraPraveen Kumar
42Kasturba NagarMadan Lal
43Malviya NagarSomnath Bharti
44RK PuramParmila Tokas
45MehrauliNaresh Yadav
46ChhatarpurKartar Singh Tanwar
47DeoliPrakash Jarwal
48Ambedkar NagarAjay Dutt
49Sangam NagarDinesh Mohaniya
50Greater KailashSaurabh Bharadwaj
51KalkajiAtishi
52TugalakabadShri Ram Pehelwan
53BadarpurRam Singh Netaji
54OkhlaAmanatullah Khan
55TrilokpuriRohit Kumar Mehraulia
56KondliKuldeep Kumar (Monu)
57PatparganjManish Sisodia
58Laxmi NagarNitin Tyagi
59Vishwas NagarDeepak Singla
60Krishna NagarSK Bagga
61Gandhi NagarNaveen Choudhary (Deepu)
62ShahdaraRam Niwas Goyal
63SeemapuriRajendra Pal Gautam
64Rohtas NagarSarita Singh
65SeelampurAbdul Rehman
66GhondaSD Sharma
67BabarpurGopal Rai
68GokalpurCh. Surendra Kumar
69MustafabadHaji Yunus
70Karawal NagarDurgesh Pathak
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