NEW DELHI: BJP on Thursday released its final list of candidates comprising nine names, and left two seats to allies – JD-U (Burari) and LJP-Ram Vilas (Deoli) – thereby completing the NDA lineup for all 70 Delhi seats that go to polls on Feb 5.
BJP’s Shikha Rai will contest against AAP’s Saurabh Bhardwaj and Garvit Singhvi of Congress from GK.
JD(U)’s Shailendra Kumar takes on AAP’s Sanjeev Jha and Congress’s Mangesh Tyagi.
LJP-Ram Vilas is yet to name its candidate.
BJP gives allies seats in Delhi with an eye on Bihar election
Sources in BJP said its state unit wasn’t keen on giving the seats to its allies, but had to do so keeping this year’s
Bihar assembly polls
in mind. Both JD(U) and LJP (Ram Vilas), with a stronghold in Bihar, are key partners in BJP-led NDA.
JD(U)’s Kumar contested the same seat in 2020 but lost by over 80,000 votes.
The other eight BJP candidates includes Poonam Sharma from Wazirpur, Bhuvan Tanwar (Delhi Cantt), Ravindra Kumar (Indraj) from Bawana, Chandan Kumar Chaudhary (Sangam Vihar), Ravikant Ujjain (Trilokpuri), Sanjay Goyal (Shahdara), Anil Vashishth (Babarpur) and Praveen Nimesh from Gokalpuri.
Chandan Kumar Chaudhary, the current BJP councillor representing Sangam Vihar A ward, will face off against Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Dinesh Mohaniya, who previously held the position of Delhi Jal Board (DJB) vice chairman. Congress has given a ticket to Harsh Chaudhary from the seat.
The party has nominated Poonam Sharma, currently serving as a councillor from the Ashok Vihar ward, to contest from the Waz
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