In its fourth and last listing for the 2025 Delhi meeting elections, the Aam Aadmi Occasion has fielded convenor Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi and chief minister Atishi from Kalkaji.
The listing of 38 candidates options different key leaders of the get together as nicely, together with Saurabh Bharadwaj, Gopal Rai, Satyendra Kumar Jain and Durgesh Pathak.
Elections to the 70-member meeting of the nationwide capital are as a consequence of be held in February 2025.
Forward of the meeting polls, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has dominated out any risk of a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. He mentioned that his get together will struggle the election by itself energy.
Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj will contest the elections from Higher Kailash, whereas Gopal Rai has been fielded from Babarpur. AAP’s last listing exhibits Satyendra Kumar Jain to be preventing the battlefield from Shakur Basti and Durgesh Pathak from Rajinder Nagar.
Different candidates embrace Ramesh Pehalwan from Kasturba Naga, Raghuvinder Shokeen from Nangloi, Imran Hussain from Ballimaran, Jarnail Singh from Tilak Nagar, and Sanjeev Jha from Burari.
Earlier, speculations had been rife over a potential alliance between AAP and the Congress, the 2 INDIA bloc companions. The rumours caught warmth after Kejriwal attended an opposition group assembly over the alleged EVM and VVPAT machines tampering within the lately held Maharashtra meeting elections.
Within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Kejriwal’s get together and the Congress had contested in an alliance within the nationwide capital in addition to different components of the nation.
Within the lead as much as the high-octane meeting polls, there’s additionally a excessive risk of Kejriwal going through the sons of two former Delhi chief ministers.
Whereas Congress has already fielded former CM Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit for the Delhi polls, the BJP is more likely to area Parvesh Sahib Singh, son of ex-CM Sahib Singh Verma.
Parvesh instructed HT on Saturday that he has been requested to arrange to contest the elections from the New Delhi constituency, the seat which Kejriwal may also be preventing for.
AAP’s “10 years of misrule have introduced Delhi to the brink of destroy”, and promised accessibility and responsiveness, vowing to be with residents “24 hours a day in your happiness and sorrow”, Parvesh added.
Kejriwal’s guarantees to Delhi
Earlier this week, Arvind Kejriwal introduced 5 ensures for auto drivers in Delhi. Among the many key ensures are ₹1 lakh for marriage of daughters and life insurance coverage price ₹10 lakh.
The AAP chief has additionally promised to supply ₹2,500 on Diwali and Holi as allowance to buy college uniforms.
Whereas vouching for his get together’s authorities, Kejriwal final month additionally issued a warning towards the BJP. He mentioned that if the saffron is voted to energy then Delhiites would as soon as once more face energy reduce issues.
“Apart from, electrical energy is free in Delhi, however it is vitally pricey in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar,” he mentioned whereas taking a jibe on the BJP-ruled states.
