MCD Election: AAP Releases First List Of 134 Candidates, Fields More Than 60 Women

AAP Candidate List MCD Election 2022: The 250-ward MCD goes to the polls on December 4, and the votes will be counted on December 7.

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP Convener Arvind Kejriwal with Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai releases the party manifesto ahead of upcoming MCD polls, during a press conference, in New Delhi.

Source : PTI

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday released the first list of candidates for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. A total of 134 candidates' names have been announced including 60 women candidates for 250 wards. The names were decided in a long meeting of the Political Affairs Committee of the party, as reported by news agency PTI. According to the party statement, almost ninety per cent of the tickets have been awarded to those workers working at the grassroots level.  

First list of AAP candidates for Delhi MCD elections is OUT!

Congratulations to all the candidates 💐

Delhi will soon be a clean & green city!#MCDMeinBhiKejriwal pic.twitter.com/vqRctcR39F

— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) November 11, 2022

More than 20 thousand party workers had applied to contest the MCD elections on Aam Aadmi Party ticket.

Earlier today, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party announced a list of star campaigners for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections. The party has named Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam, who recently resigned as minister amid a row over attending a religious conversion event, and former cricketer and Rajya Sabha member Harbhajan Singh as its star campaigners, according to the list posted on the party's official Twitter handle.

आगामी MCD चुनाव के लिए पार्टी ने 30 लोगों को STAR प्रचारक नियुक्त किया है।

सभी स्टार प्रचारक Delhi के कोने-कोने में जाकर, दिल्ली को कूड़ा-BJP मुक्त बनाने के लिए AAP के पक्ष में प्रचार करेंगे। pic.twitter.com/8P9LD23Yb5

— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) November 11, 2022

The 250-ward MCD goes to the polls on December 4, and the votes will be counted on December 7.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, and Rajya Sabha members Sanjay Singh, Raghav Chadha, and ND Gupta are also on the list of 30.

A celebrity campaigner's electioneering expenditures are not included in the candidate's poll expenses. These expenditures are borne by respective parties, according to election legislation, news agency PTI reported. 

Ministers from the Delhi and Punjab cabinets, including Kailash Gahlot, Gopal Rai, Imran Hussain, and the newly inducted Raaj Kumar Anand, are also on the Aam Aadmi Party's list of star campaigners.

Durgesh Pathak, Vishesh Ravi, Atishi, Saurabh Bhardwaj, and ministers are also on the list.

The BJP accused the AAP of taking an "anti-Hindu" stance by including MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam, who recently resigned as a minister over a row over attending a religious conversion event here, in its list of star campaigners for the MCD polls, PTI reported.