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Delhi Assembly Elections: BJP Releases First List Of 57 Candidates( Photo Credit : File Photo)
Delhi Assembly Elections 2020: The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) has announced its first list of candidates for upcoming Delhi assembly elections. BJP on Friday released its first list of 57 candidates for the February 8 polls to the 70-member Delhi Assembly, fielding sitting MLA Vijender Gupta and former mayors Ravinder Gupta and Yogender Chandolia. Vijender Gupta, one of the three BJP candidates to win in 2015, will again fight from his Rohini seat. The list, which was released by Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari, also included former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra and has 11 SC and four woman candidates. The party, however, did not name its candidate against AAP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday with Tiwari saying the candidate from New Delhi seat will be announced soon.
| Seats/ | Candidates |
|---|---|
| Narela | Neeldaman Khatri |
| Timarpur | Surendra Singh Bittu |
| Adarsh Nagar | Rajkumar Bhatiya |
| Badli | Vijay Bhagat |
| Rithala | Manish Chaudhary |
| Bawana | Ravindra Kumar Indraj |
| Mundka | Master Azad Singh |
| Kirari | Anil Jha |
| Sultanpur Majra | Ram Chandra Jhawariya |
| Mangolpuri | Karamsingh Karma |
| Rohini | Vijender Gupta |
| Shalimar Bagh | Rekha Gupta |
| Shakoor Basti | SC Vats |
| Trinagar | Tilak Ram Gupta |
| Wazirpur | Mahendra Nagpal |
| Model Town | Kapil Mishra |
| Sadar Bazar | Jai Prakash |
| Chandani Chowk | Sunam Kumar Gupta |
| Matia Mahal | Ravindra Gupta |
| Ballimaran | Lata Sodhi |
| Karol Bagh | Yogendra Chandoliya |
| Patel Nagar | Pravesh Ratan |
| Moti Nagar | Subhash Sachdeva |
| Madipur | Kailsh Sankhla |
| Tilak Nagar | Rajiv Babbar |
| Janakpuri | Aashish Sood |
| Vikaspuri | Sanjay Singh |
| Uttam Nagar | Krishna Gehlot |
| Dwarka | Pradhyuman Rajput |
| Matiala | Rajesh Gehlot |
| Najafgarh | Ajit Kharkhadi |
| Bijwasan | Satprakash Rana |
| Palam | Vijay Pandit |
| Rajendranagar | Sardar RP Singh |
| Jangpura | Sardar IS Bassi |
| Malviya Nagar | Shailendra Singh Monty |
| RK Puram | Anil Sharma |
| Chhttarpur | Bramh Singh Tanwar |
| Deoli | Arvind Kumar |
| Ambedkar Nagar | Khushi Ram |
| Greater Kailash | Shikha Gupta |
| Tughlaqabad | Vikram Vidhudi |
| Badarpur | Ramveer Singh Vidhudi |
| Okhla | Bramh Singh |
| Trilok Puri | Kiran Vaid |
| Kondli | Rajkumar Dhillon |
| Patparganj | Ravi Negi |
| Laxmi Nagar | Abhay Kumar Verma |
| Vishwas Nagar | OP Sharma |
| Gandhi Nagar | Anil Vajpayee |
| Rohtash Nagar | Jitendra Nagar |
| Seelampur | Kaushal Mishra |
| Ghonda | Ajay Mahawar |
| Babarpur | Naresh Gaur |
| Gokulpur | Ranjit Kashyap |
| Mushtafabad | Jagdish Pradhan |
| Karawal Nagar | Mohan Singh Bisht |
Manoj Tiwari was joined by senior BJP leader Prakash Javadekar at the press conference where he announced the party candidates whose names were finalised at its central election committee meeting on Thursday night.
The ruling AAP has announced all its 70 candidates. The BJP had won only three assembly seats in the previous assembly elections, while the AAP had won 67. The elections will have triangular contest with the Congress being the third major player as political watchers believe that the BJP and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP are likely to be the main rivals in most of the seats. The voting to elect the new Delhi assembly will take place on February 8 while the results will be out on Ferbruary 11.