Delhi Elections: BJP Releases 4th List Of 9 Candidates, Fields Shikha Rai From Greater Kailash
The BJP is making all out efforts to come back to power in Delhi after a gap of over 25 years. The party after 1998 has been kept out of power first by the Congress till 2013 and then by the AAP.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released the fourth list of candidates for Delhi Assembly Elections, naming Shikha Rai From Greater Kailash.
The saffron party has named Ravinder Kumar from Bawana, Poonam Sharma from Wazirpur, Bhuvan Tanwar from Delhi Cantt, Chandan Kumar Choudhary from Sangam Vihar and Ravikant Ujjain from Trilokpuri.
Meanwhile, Sanjay Goyal was named from Shahdara, Anil Vashisth from Babarpur and Praveen Nimesh from Gokalpur (SC).
भाजपा की केंद्रीय चुनाव समिति ने दिल्ली में होने वाले विधानसभा चुनाव 2025 के लिए अपनी चतुर्थ सूची में निम्नलिखित नामों पर अपनी स्वीकृति प्रदान की है। pic.twitter.com/NVmOGUCkTN
— BJP (@BJP4India) January 16, 2025
While Shikha Rai is contesting against Delhi minister and AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj, Anil Vashishth will battle it out against Gopal Rai, also a minister in the AAP government.
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The BJP has so far declared 68 candidates for the 70-member Assembly elections. The party is likely to allot the remaining two seats to its allies — Burari and Deoli.
Soon after the BJP released its fourth list, its ally JU(U) named Shailendra Kumar its candidate from the Burari constituency. The Deoli seat may likely go to Chirag Paswan's LJP(R). In the 2020 polls, the JD(U) contested two seats -- Burari and Sangam Vihar -- in alliance with the BJP.
In the 2020 assembly elections, Shikha Rai lost to Bharadwaj from GK by over 16,000 votes. In Burari, JD(U) candidate Shailendra Kumar was defeated by AAP's Sanjeev Jha by a whopping margin of 88,000 votes.
The saffron party has so far released three list of candidates, naming Satish Upadhayay from Malviya Nagar, Ramesh Bidhuri from Kalkaji, Parvesh Verma from New Delhi, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar, and Satish Jain from Chandni Chowk.
The BJP is making all out efforts to come back to power in Delhi after a gap of over 25 years. The party after 1998 has been kept out of power first by the Congress till 2013 and then by the AAP. Delhi goes to polls on February 5 and the results will be announced on February 8.
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