BJP’s first candidate list for 70 Delhi seats expected this month; AAP, Congress have announced candidates earlier.
New Delhi: Ahead of the high stakes Delhi assembly elections in 2025, the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is now all set to announce it’s first list of candidates before the end of the year.
On Wednesday, the BJP announced the 21-member-led State Election Committee for the upcoming polls at the direction of Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda Nadda.
This entire the party held many long discussions amongst with their cadre and welcomed the arrival of enthusiastic grassroot level leaders at the Delhi BJP unit headquarters at Pandit Pant Marg, New Delhi.
Several leaders including MP Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Harsh Malhotra are part of this committee which is mandated with scanning potential candidates.
A party insider told The Sunday Guardian that “the Delhi BJP unit is all set to figh the Delhi elections and we are expecting good numbers too. The State Election Committee has been constituted and the process is going on to scan the potential candidates before finalising the first list.”
“There are 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly and the first list will be released before the end of this month and the second list is likely to be released in January 2025”, he said.
Meanwhile, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has already released the list of all 70 candidates for the Delhi assembly polls while the Congress has released the name of 21 candidates in its first list.
Sources reveal that the main reason for withholding the candidates’ names is the ongoing winter session of Parliament.
Once the committee, followed by the core committee, finalises the names of the possible candidates, only after that the Central Election Committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet and take the final call.
The Delhi BJP unit has been consistently visiting slum areas and meeting auto drivers, a key voter base of AAP and had announced its ‘Parivartan Yatra’ was to begin on December 8 and would last till December 20, where the party would ask residents of Delhi why a political ‘change’ is important in the national capital. But the much awaited “yatra” was called off which raised a lot of eyebrows within the party cadre.
A party source on the condition of anonymity confirmed that “The yatra hasn’t been called off but has been postponed.”
Citing political strategy, the leader said that, “We will continue with this yatra only after the names are released. This would have a better impact and would resonate more amongst the voters.”