Denied Ticket For MCD Election, Former AAP Councillor Climbs Transmission Tower

MCD Election: Former AAP Councillor climber over a transmission tower near Shastri Park Metro Station as he is allegedly unhappy over not being given a ticket for the upcoming local body poll.

New Delhi: Former AAP Councillor Haseeb-ul-Hasan on Sunday climbed a transmission tower near Shastri Park Metro Station allegedly unhappy over not being given a ticket for the upcoming local body poll.

News agency PTI reported fire officials as informing that they received information at 10.51 am that a person had climbed an electric tower in the Gandhi Nagar area.

Police personnel, along with officials from the fire brigade and BSES, and ambulances reached the spot and requested Hasan to climb down. He eventually agreed, a senior police officer said.

"Had the media not come, Durgesh Pathak, Atishi, Sanjay Singh wouldn't have returned my (nomination) paper.They sold the ticket to Deepu Chaudhary for Rs 3 crore, and demanded money from me but I don't have any," news agency ANI reported Haseeb-ul-Hasan as saying. 

This comes after the Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday announced its second and final list of 117 candidates for the December 4 polls to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

The party, in a statement, said "people's choice has become the party's voice" with old party workers getting precedence in the second list of candidates after emerging at the top of all surveys.

"As many as 117 old and hardworking party volunteers with a strong presence in their areas have got precedence in the ticket distribution," read the statement.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led party declared its first list on Friday for the 250-member House. The candidates were finalised in a marathon meeting of the AAP Political Affairs Committee chaired by the national convenor.

The AAP surveyed all candidates and took public feedback before finalising the candidatures. More than 20,000 party workers had applied to contest the upcoming civic election, news agency PTI reported.

The AAP's Political Affairs Committee (PAC) met for the second consecutive day on Saturday to finalise the list of candidates and discuss other poll-related matter.

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and AAP Delhi State Convenor Gopal Rai were present in the meeting among other senior members.

Meanwhile, the Delhi BJP on Saturday released its first list of 232 candidates for the civic body polls with the nominees including 126 women, three Muslims, seven Sikhs, and nine former mayors.

(With Agency Inputs)