BJP late on Monday declared a list of 62 candidates out of a total of 70 for the February 7 Delhi Assembly Elections, with its chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi contesting from Krishna Nagar and former Union minister Krishna Tirath from Patel Nagar seat.
Former Delhi minister and senior party leader Jagdish Mukhi will contest from Janakpuri seat while former Delhi BJP chief Vijendra Gupta has been fielded from the Rohini seat.
The party has decided to field a young face to take on AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal and has nominated former DUSU president and party’s BJYM leader Nupur Sharma from the New Delhi constituency.
The party has decided not to field its Delhi BJP president Satish Upadhyay, who will lead the party.
BJP has nominated all its sitting MLAs and will leave some seats for its ally SAD, which had contested in four seats in the last election.
The list of 62 party candidates was announced after a meeting of the BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) chaired by BJP president Amit Shah and attended among others by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Other Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj also attended the CEC meeting.
Former Delhi Assembly Speaker MS Dheer, who switched to BJP from AAP, will contest from Jangpura and former AAP MLA Vinod Kumar Binny will contest from Patparganj seat where he faces AAP leader Manish Sisodia.
Delhi’s former mayor Rajni Abby will contest from Timarpur seat, while senior party leader RP Singh will contest from Rajindra Nagar seat.
“The party has taken care that all sections of the society were given due representation. The party has renominated all its sitting MLAs and fielded over 20 youth and five women candidates,” BJP general secretary and Union Minister JP Nadda told reporters after the CEC meeting.
Against 12 SC seats, the party has fielded 13 dalit faces, Nadda said.
When asked about not fielding Upadhyay, he said he will not contest the polls as the elections will be contested under his stewardship and he has a lot of responsibility on him.
BJP’s first list:
AC Name – Name of Candidate
Nerela – Neeldaman Khatri
Burari – Gopal Jha
Timarpur – Rajni Abbi (W)
Adarsh Nagar – Ram Kishan Singhal
Badli – Rajesh Yadav
Rithala – Kulwant Rana
Bawana (SC) – Gugan Singh
Mundka – Azad Singh
Kirari – Anil Jha
Sultanpur Majra (SC) – Prabhu Dayal Sai
Nangloi Jat Manoj – Shokeen
Mangol Puri (SC) – Surjeet
Rohini – Vijendra Gupta
Shalimar Bagh – Rekha Gupta (W)
Shakur Basti – Dr S C Vats
Tri Nagar – Dr Nand Kishore Garg
Wazirpur – Dr Mahendra Nagpal
Model Town – Vivek Garg
Sadar Bazar – Praveen Jain
Chandni Chowk – Suman Kumar Gupta
Matia Mahal – Anjuman Dahalwi
Ballimaran – Shyam Morwal
Karol Bagh (SC) -Yogendra Chandolia
Patel Nagar (SC) – Krishna Tirath (W)
Moti Nagar – Subhash Sachdeva
Madipur (SC) – Rajkumar Phulwaria
Tilak Nagar – Rajeev Babbar
Janakpuri – Jagdish Mukhi
Uttam Nagar – Pawan Sharma
Dwarka – Praduman Rajput
Matiala – Rajesh Gehlot
Najafgarh – Ajeet Kharkhari
Bijwasan – Sat Prakash Rana
Palam – Dharamdev Solanki
Delhi Cantt – Karan Singh Tanwar
Rajinder Nagar – Sardar R P Singh
New Delhi – Nupur Sharma (W)
Jangpura – M S Dheer
Kasturba Nagar – Ravindra Choudhary
R K Puram – Anil Sharma
Chhatarpur – Brahm Singh Tanwar
Deoli (SC) – Arvind Kumar
Ambedkar Nagar (SC) – Ashok Chouhan
Sangam Vihar – HCL Gupta
Tughlakabad – Vikram Vidhuri
Badarpur – Rambir Vidhuri
Okhla – Brahm Singh Vidhuri
Trilokpuri (SC) – Kiran Vaidhya (W)
Kondli (SC) – Hukum Singh
Patparganj – Vinod Kumar Binni
Laxmi Nagar – B B Tyagi
Vishwas Nagar – O P Sharma
Krishna Nagar – Kiran Bedi (W)
Gandhi Nagar – Jitendra Choudhary
Seema Puri (SC) – Karam Vir Chandel
Rohtas Nagar – Jitendra Mahajan
Seelampur – Sanjay Jain
Ghonda – Sahib Singh Chouhan
Babarpur – Naresh Gaur
Gokalpur (SC) – Ranjeet Kashyap
Mustafabad – Jagdish Pradhan
Karawal Nagar – Mohan Singh Visht
—PTI