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.

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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.

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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.