New Delhi: Ending speculations of an alliance with the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party announced Saturday names of party candidates on six of seven seats in Delhi for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Addressing a press conference here, Delhi AAP convener Gopal Rai said Atishi will contest from East Delhi, Guggan Singh from North-West Delhi, Raghav Chadha from South, Dilip Pandey from North-East, Pankaj Gupta from Chandni Chowk and Brijesh Goyal will contest from New Delhi seats.
Rai said the candidate for West Delhi will be announced soon.
The six candidates were earlier appointed as in charge on the respective Lok Sabha seats.
During a meeting of ‘Mahagathbandhan’, leaders at NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s residence last month, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had refused a proposal for alliance between his party and the AAP, citing opposition from its Delhi unit leaders, Rai added.
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News reports say that AAP headed by Kejriwal is going solo in Delhi having announced its candidates on 2 March 2019. No tie up with Congress. On the same date , some news reports of who is with whom in Andhra Pradesh and Telengana States in the south of India , have appeared. Overall picture of so called “Mahagathbandhan” across the country does not seem to be any solid. Thus it can be said that in substance , the political picture so far is a scattered one with few exceptions. These circumstances in the political landscape of the country look to be corresponding to this Vedic astrology writer’s predictive alert of last year on 7 October , 2018 through article – “ The Year 2019 Astrologically for India” – published at theindiapost.com. The text of the related alert in the article reads like this :-
“ Now here , the year 2019 is in the focus about India , when multi- sections of society are likely to present a scattered political picture. A kind of political hysteria catering to varying vested interests looks to be coming up”. https://www.theindiapost.com/headline/the-year-2019-astrologically-for-india/