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BJP Releases 1st List Of Candidates for Delhi Polls, Punjab Women Protest Outside Kejriwal’s House

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The Delhi assembly elections are scheduled for February. The incumbent AAP has already announced candidates for all 70 seats, while Congress has named 48 candidates so far.

The Delhi assembly polls date could be announced anytime now. The BJP, which is eying to dethrone the AAP from the government, has announced its first list of 29 candidates for the 70-member assembly elections.

Former Lok Sabha MP and son of Sahib Singh Verma, Parvesh Verma, will contest against former CM and  AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi. The Congress has fielded former MP and son of former CM Sheila Dikshit, Sandeep Dikshit.

Ramesh Bidhuri, who was dropped from his Lok Sabha seat, will contest against Delhi Chief Minister Atishi in Kalkaji.

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On the other hand, Congress has fielded All India Mahila Congress chief Alka Lamba. The saffron party has dropped Gandhi Nagar MLA Anil Bajpayee, who has been two-term MLA from the seat, first from the AAP and then from the BJP.

The party has fielded former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely from the seat. Lovely has been MLA from 2003 to 2013  for consecutive terms.

In 2017, Lovely had quit the Congress and joined the BJP.  However, in 2018, he returned to the Congress till 2024, when he returned to the BJP.

Lovely has held many key portfolios in the Delhi government, some of them being Urban Development & Revenue, Transport, and Education. Former Minister Kailash Gehlot, a former Kejriwal loyalist, will be contesting from the Bijwasan seat.

The Delhi assembly elections are scheduled for February. The incumbent AAP has already announced candidates for all 70 seats, while Congress has named 48 candidates so far.

Meanwhile, Women from Punjab today protested outside Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi residence.

The protesting women from Punjab accused the AAP-led Punjab government of not fulfilling its pre-poll promise to provide Rs 1,000 per month financial aid to every woman in the state.

Interestingly, this protest comes in the backdrop of the announcement of the AAP’s  Mukhya Mantri Mahila Samman Yojana, which proposes a Rs 2,100 monthly financial aid for women over 18 if the AAP retains power in the national capital.

Reacting to the protests, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal launched a scathing attack on the Congress and BJP, accusing them of working in alliance to oppose his party.

“Congress should not worry about us,” Mr Kejriwal said. “Those women belong to their (Congress and BJP) party. They have not come from Punjab, the women in Punjab are with us. They have faith in AAP. Congress and BJP should officially announce that they are contesting elections together against AAP in Delhi,” Kejriwal said.

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