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Delhi Assembly polls: AAP releases 1st list of 11 candidates; 6 BJP, Congress turncoats on it

Elections to the 70-seat Assembly are due by February next year.

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New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday declared its first list of 11 candidates for the Delhi Assembly polls due in February next year.

Six leaders from the BJP and Congress, who had recently switched to the Arvind Kejriwal-led party, figured in the list.

While Brahm Singh Tanwar (Chhatarpur), Anil Jha (Kirari), BB Tyagi (Laxmi Nagar) had recently quit the BJP and joined the AAP, Zubair Chaudhary (Seelampur), Veer Singh Dhingan (Seemapuri) amd Somesh Shokeen (Matiala) joined the AAP after quitting the Congress.

Sarita Singh (Rohtas Nagar), Ram Singh Netaji (Badarpur), Gaurav Sharma (Ghonda) Manoj Tyagi (Karawal Nagar) and Deepak Singhal (Vishwas Nagar) were the other candidates whose names were announced by the party.

The names were announced after a meeting of the AAP’s political affairs committee (PAC) headed by party convener Kejriwal.

The elections for 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly are due in February 2025.

Kejriwal said earlier that tickets for the elections will be distributed based on the work, public opinion and winning chances of the probables.

The AAP won 62 of the 70 assembly seats in the last elections held in 2020. PTI VIT VIT DV DV

This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content.


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