MLAs Fume As 23 New Faces In AAP's Candidate List For Delhi Polls; 8 Women, 6 Congress Turncoats

The last date to file nomination is January 21, the scrutiny will happen on January 22 while the last date of withdrawal of candidature will be January 24. The counting of votes will be taken up on February 11.

The list also comprises eight women including Aatishi Marlena, Parmila Tokas, Sarita Sing and others. (File Photo/ Getty)

New Delhi: Looks like Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) list of all 70 candidates has shattered hopes of a few candidates who were expecting ticket by the ruling party in the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections, happening next month. On Tuesday evening, the ruling party in the national capital released list of all candidates for the February 8 elections for 70-member assembly. As per the list, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is set to contest from New Delhi and his deputy Manish Sisodia will fight from Patparganj. The list also comprises eight women including Aatishi Marlena, Parmila Tokas, Sarita Sing and others. While 46 of the sitting MLAs will re-contest the elections, 15 sitting legislators have been replaced. As nine seats were vacant, the AAP has also named new candidates. New candidates have been fielded by AAP on Assembly seats of Chandni Chowk, Karawal Nagar, Bijwasan, Rajouri Garden, Gandhi Nagar, Matia Mahal and Dwarka. In what is touted to be an unexpected reshuffle by Kejriwal-led party, sitting MLA Adarsh Shastri, who is the grandson of former PM Lal Bahadur Shashtri, was replaced by Vinay Mishtra from Dwarka assembly seat. Likewise, from the Matia Mahal seat, MLA Aseem Ahmed Khan was denied ticket to field Shoaib Iqbal, who recently joined AAP from Congress. Former Congress leader Prahlad Singh Sawhney has been replaced former AAP MLA Alka Lamba, who was disqualified from the Delhi Assembly by Speaker Ram Niwas Goel 'on grounds of defection'. Naveen Choudhary (Deepu) will now fight polls on AAP ticket in 2020 from Gandhi Nagar seat replacing Anil Bajpai who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2019 after the party sacked him following a rift with party leadership. In what might be considered as a big controversy ahead of the Assembly elections, sitting AAP MLA from Badarpur ND Sharma accused Kejriwal and his deputy Sisodia of taking Rs 20 crore for giving the election ticket to a 'land mafia'. Sharma has resigned from the party after learning that he was not given party ticket to contest polls. Minister for Employment, Development, Labour, General Administration and Irrigation in Government of Delhi, Gopal Rai has been fielded by the party from Badarpur seat. Here is the complete list of AAP candidates for Delhi Assembly polls: 1. Narela - Sharad Chauhan 2. Burari - Sanjeev Jha 3. Timarpur - Dilip Pandey 4. Adarsh Nagar - Pawan Sharma 5. Badli - Ajesh Yadav 6. Rithala - Mahinder Goyal 7. Bawana - Jai Bhagwan Upkar 8. Mundka - Dharampal Lakra 9. Kirari - Rituraj Jha 10. Sultan Pur Majra - Mukesh Kumar Ahlawat 11. Nangloi Jat - Raghuvinder Shokeen 12. Mangol Puri - Rakhi Bidlan 13. Rohini - Rajesh Nama Bansiwala 14. Shalimar Bagh - Bandana Kumari 15. Shakur Basti - Satyendra Jain 16. Tri Nagar - Jitender Tomar 17. Wazirpur - Rajesh Gupta 18. Model Town - Akhilesh Pati Tripathi 19. Sadar Bazar - Som Dutt 20. Chandni Chowk - Prahlad Singh Sawhney 21. Matia Mahal - Shoaib Iqbal 22. Ballimaran - Imran Hussain 23. Karol Bagh - Vishesh Ravi 24. Patel Nagar - Raaj Kumar Anand 25. Moti Nagar - Shiv Charan Goel 26. Madipur - Girish Soni 27. Rajouri Garden - Dhanwati Chandela 28. Hari Nagar - Rajkumari Dhillon 29. Tilak Nagar - Jarnail Singh 30. Janakpur - Rajesh Rishi 31. Vikaspuri - Mahinder Yadav 32. Uttam Nagar - Naresh Balyan 33. Dwarka - Vinay Kumar Mishra 34. Matiala - Gulab Singh Yadav 35. Najafgarh - Kailash Gahlot 36. Bijwasan - B.S. Joon 37. Palam - Bhavna Gaur 38. Delhi Cantonment - Virender Singh Kadian 39. Rajinder Nagar - Raghav Chadha 40. New Delhi - Arvind Kejriwal 41. Jangpura - Praveen Kumar 42. Kasturba Nagar - Madan Lal 43. Malviya Nagar - Somnath Bharti 44. RK Puram - Parmila Tokas 45. Mehrauli - Naresh Yadav 46. Chhatarpur - Kartar Singh Tanwar 47. Deoli - Prakash Jarwal 48. Ambedkar Nagar - Ajay Dutt 49. Sangam Nagar - Dinesh Mohaniya 50. Greater Kailash - Saurabh Bharadwaj 51. Kalkaji - Atishi 52. Tugalakabad - Sahi Ram Pehelwan 53. Badarpur - Ram Singh Netaji 54. Okhla - Amanatullah Khan 55. Trilokpuri - Rohit Kumar Mehraulia 56. Kondli - Kuldeep Kumar (Monu) 57. Patparganj - Manish Sisodia 58. Laxmi Nagar - Nitin Tyagi 59. Vishwas Nagar - Deepak Singla 60. Krishna Nagar - S.K. Bagga 61. Gandhi Nagar - Naveen Choudhary (Deepu) 62. Shahdara - Ram Niwas Goyal 63. Seemapuri - Rajendra Pal Gautam 64. Rohtas Nagar - Sarita Singh 65. Seelampur - Abdul Rehman 66. Ghonda - S.D. Sharma 67. Babarpur - Gopal Rai 68. Gokalpur - Ch. Surendra Kumar 69. Mustafabad - Haji Yunus 70. Karawal Nagar - Durgesh Pathak Dilip Pandey, Atishi and Raghav Chadha, who unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, will also contest the assembly elections to be held on February 8. Speaking to reporters after the PAC meeting, Sisodia said that Committee has approved names of all 70 candidates for the polls. "The existing MLAs will contest elections on 46 seats in place of 15 existing MLAs and 9 new MLAs on vacant seats. There are 8 women among them. In 2015, there were six women," Sisodia said. The last date to file nomination is January 21, the scrutiny will happen on January 22 while the last date of withdrawal of candidature will be January 24. The counting of votes will be taken up on February 11.