Arvind Kejriwal will contest the upcoming Delhi Assembly election from his current constituency New Delhi, the fourth list of candidates Aam Aadmi Party released today shows. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj and Gopal Rai are sticking to their current seats, Kalkaji, Greater Kailash and Babarpur, respectively.
AAP has now released the names of its candidates for all 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly. Shortly after AAP released its final list of candidates, Mr Kejriwal said the party would contest these polls with full confidence and preparations.
“The BJP is invisible. They don’t have a Chief Minister face, a team or a plan, or a vision for Delhi. They have just one slogan and missing — ‘remove Kejriwal’. Ask them what they have done for five years, they will say ‘we abused Kejriwal’,” he said.
Mr Kejriwal said AAP has a vision for the development of Delhi and its people, a plan and a team of educated leaders to implement this. “We have a list of work we have done in 10 years. Delhi residents will vote those who work, not those who abuse,” he said.
By fielding its Mr Kejriwal, Ms Atishi and its top ministers from seats they currently represent, AAP has also responded to the BJP’s dare after the ruling party released its second list of candidates. When former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia moved to from his current seat Patparganj to Jangpura, Delhi BJP chief Virendraa Sachdeva had claimed that many AAP MLAs didn’t want to contest the polls because they fear defeat. “(Former) Deputy Chief Minister (Sisodia) has fled, imagine the fear. Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi will flee too,” he had said.
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