Delhi Election 2025: Six former BJP, Congress leaders on AAP's first list of 11 candidates

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday released its first list of 11 candidates for the crucial Assembly election in the national capital due in February 2025. Interestingly, the maiden list of the party does not feature names of big AAP leaders such as Chief Minister Atishi, former CM Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia or even Delhi ministers like Saurabh Bhardwaj, Gopal Rai and others. AAP has fielded six leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress, who recently switched to the Kejriwal-led party.

Among these are former BJP leaders Brahm Singh Tanwar from Chhatarpur, Anil Jha from Kirari and BB Tyagi from Laxmi Nagar. Besides them, the ex-Congress leaders on the list are Zubair Chaudhary from Seelampur, Veer Singh Dhingan from Seemapuri and Somesh Shokeen from Matiala. Apart from these, the party has fielded Sarita Singh from Rohtas Nagar, Ram Singh Netaji from Badarpur, Gaurav Sharma from Ghonda, Manoj Tyagi from Karawal Nagar and Deepak Singhal from Vishwas Nagar.



First list of AAP candidates for Delhi Elections is OUT!!️ All the best to all the candidates ✌️???? फिर लायेंगे केजरीवाल ! ???? #PhirLayengeKejriwal pic.twitter.com/YTbnqpzqEC — AAP (@AamAadmiParty) November 21, 2024 The first list of candidates was released after a meeting of the party's political affairs committee (PAC), headed by its national convenor Kejriwal.

Earlier, the former Delhi CM said that tickets for the 2025 Assembly poll will be distributed based on the work, public opinion as well as winning potential of candidates. During the 2020 Assembly election in the national capital, the AAP almost repeated its performance from 2015, bagging 62 out of 70 seats in a landslide victory. The remaining eight seats went to the BJP, while the Congress failed to open its account.

Here's a complete list of AAP candidates: S. No. Constituency No.

Constituency Names AAP candidates 1 9 Kirari Anil Jha 2 34 Matiala Sumesh Shokeen 3 46 Chhatarpur Brahm Singh Tanwar 4 53 Badarpur Ram Singh Netaji 5 58 Laxmi Nagar BB Tyagi 6 59 Vishwas Nagar Deepak Singhla 7 63 Seema Puri Veer Singh Dhingan 8 64 Rohtas Nagar Sarita Singh 9 65 Seelampur Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad 10 66 Ghonda Gaurav Sharma 11 70 Karawal Nagar Manoj Tyagi.