BJP First List for Delhi Elections Spotlight Old Faces
Delhi BJP manifesto meeting with RWA. Image credit Bhawna Malik
Ramesh Bidhuri Makes Comeback in Delhi Assembly Elections
By Amit Kumar
New Delhi, January 4: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday announced its first list of candidates for the Delhi Assembly elections. The BJP has fielded known faces of the party in the list of the 29 candidates.
The Election Commission (EC) is likely to announce the date for the Delhi Assembly elections shortly. Former South Delhi Lok Sabha MP Ramesh Bidhuri has bagged the BJP nomination from the Kalkaji Assembly seat.
The BJP had denied him the Lok Sabha ticket this year. The political observers had claimed that the BJP punished Bidhuri for raining abuses on the then Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Danish Ali in the Lok Sabha.
Ali had lodged complaint against Bidhuri with the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. But no action has yet been taken against Bidhuri. The Gujjar leader of the BJP had abused Ali by raining religious slurs on whim while his colleagues in the Lok Sabha Ravi Shankar Prasad and Harsh Vardhan laughed.
The BJP in the first list of the candidates has also fielded two former ministers of the Sheila Dikshit Cabinet. Arvinder Singh Lovely and Raj Kumar Chouhan have been fielded from Gandhinagar and Mangolpuri Assembly seats respectively.
The BJP also fielded former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) turncoat Kailash Gehlot from the Bijwasan Assembly seat. The BJP has also fielded former Lok Sabha MP Parvesh Singh Verma from the New Delhi Assembly seat.
Verma, who is son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma, will challenge the AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat. Kejriwal has been undefeated from the New Delhi Assembly seat since 2013 Assembly elections.
The BJP has also fielded the party’s national general secretary Dushyant Gautam from the Karol Bagh reserved seat. Gautam has previously been the BJP in-charge for Uttarakhand.
The BJP has also fielded well known local faces such as Vijendra Gupta from the Rohini Assembly seat. Vijendra Gupta and seven other BJP candidates had won the 2020 Assembly elections in the national capital.
The BJP has also fielded Ashish Sood from the Janakpuri Assembly seat. He has a hattrick record of losing Assembly elections on a trot since 2013.
The BJP has also fielded former party chief in the city Satish Upadhyay from the Malviya Nagar Assembly seat. The BJP has fielded Ravinder Singh Negi, a sitting councillor, from the Patparganj Assembly seat.
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