Avadh Ojha From Patparganj and Manish Sisodia from Jangpura…
On Monday, 09 December 2024, AAP released its second list of 20 candidates for the Delhi Assembly polls, due early in 2025. Last month, it released a list of 11 candidates. The ruling party is yet to announce candidates for 39 seats in the 70-member Assembly.
Delhi's former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia will contest the Assembly polls from Jangpura and Avadh Ojha is the Aam Aadmi Party's candidate from east Delhi's Patparganj.
The Jangpura seat has been with AAP since 2013. The former Delhi Assembly Speaker Maninder Singh Dhir won from there. When Mr. Dhir switched to the BJP, AAP fielded Praveen Kumar who won the seat in the 2015 and the 2020 polls.
This time, Mr. Sisodia is standing from there. The former Deputy CM, who was arrested in a money laundering case linked to Delhi's now-scrapped liquor policy, is out on bail. He has said that he would join the government only after the verdict in the "people's court".
For Avadh Ojha, who joined the AAP earlier this month, Patparganj is a safe seat. The east Delhi constituency is seen as an AAP stronghold that has been represented by Mr. Sisodia since 2013.
Edited By: Tanvi Walia
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