The Congress Party released its first list of 21 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections-2025. This move follows the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which had earlier announced two lists of candidates, finalizing 11 and 20 names respectively. The Congress’ announcement signals its readiness to contest independently, effectively ruling out any alliance with AAP in the Delhi elections.
State President Devendra Yadav has been fielded from Badli, former minister Haroon Yusuf from Ballimaran and former State Congress Committee President Chaudhary Anil Kumar from Patparganj.
This list was released after the meeting of the Central Election Committee of Congress. Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Ambika Soni, Salman Khurshid, TS Singh Deo and Madhusudan Mistry were present in it.
Sandeep Dixit is expected to run against former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal is an MLA from New Delhi assembly seat and it is likely that Kejriwal will be a candidate from New Delhi assembly seat in the upcoming elections as well. In such a situation, Congress leader Sandeep Dixit is going to get a tough competition from Kejriwal.
Kejriwal had defeated the then Chief Minister and Congress candidate Sheila Dixit by 25,864 votes in 2013 from New Delhi assembly seat. BJP's Vijender Kumar was at number three. While in 2015, BJP's Nupur Sharma was at number two. Congress' Kiran Walia, who was at number three, got only 4781 votes. In 2020, BJP's Sunil Kumar was defeated by 21,697 votes. Congress' Romesh Sabharwal was at number three.
Anil Kumar pitted against Awadh Ojha
On the other hand, AAP has given ticket to Awadh Ojha Sir from Manish Sisodia's seat Patparganj. Now Congress has made Anil Kumar the candidate from this seat.
Regarding this list, Delhi Congress State President Devendra Yadav said that all sections have been taken care of in our list. You will also get to see new and young faces in this list. I am happy that our leadership has talked to everyone and discussed. We are fully prepared to contest the elections strongly.
At the same time, Delhi Congress in-charge Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin said that today we had a meeting, where senior leaders of Delhi Congress were present. Delhi has suffered a lot in the last decade. The Center and Delhi Government have been blaming each other for the bad conditions here. The people of Delhi are determined to teach these governments a lesson.
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