Ahead of the municipal elections, 90 per cent of the old candidates were given the ticket, who have been working for public interest at the grassroots level, by the AAP on Friday. Out of a total 134 candidates, 60 candidates are women, who were facilitated with the party ticket.

The party has given a ticket to Aashish Tyagi from Burari, Antul Kholi from Mukherjee Nagar, Manu Gupta from AzadPur, Savita Yadav from Samaypur Badli, Dharmendra Kumar from Begumpur, Ramesh Pradhan from Kerari, Bobby Kinnar from Sultanpuri-A, Richa Goyal from Rohini - F, Jalaj Chaudhary from Shalimar Bagh-A, Ravi Shankar from Model Town, Shamim Bano from Quresh Nagar.

Apart from this Rakesh Joshi has been given ticket from Karampura, Puneet Rai from Ramesh Nagar, Ronakshi Sharma from Baljeet Nagar, Babita Sharma from Sharti Nagar, Mahesh Khichi from Dev Nagar, Ashok Manu from Tilak Nagar, Ashok Pandey from Vikas Nagar."Leena Kumari from Malviya Nagar, Himani Jain from Vasant Vihar, Suman Gupta from Khan Pur, Neha Chauhan from Madhu Vihar, Nirmala Kumari from Sanik Enclave, Jeetu Sabarwal from Janakpuri West, Dimple Ahuja from Janakpuri South, Shilpa Kaur from Khayala, Asha Thakur from Chitranjan Park are among few candidates to whom party has given the tickets, said a statement released by the party late on Friday night.

The list of Candidates were finalised in a marathon meeting of the AAP Political Affairs Committee chaired by the party supremo Arvind Kejriwal. During the meeting many senior dignitaries including Deputy CM Manish Sisodia and State Convenor and Cabinet Minister Gopal Rai were present.

"Before giving the tickets, the Party had surveyed all the candidates and took feedback from the local people upon their choice of candidates," it stated."More than 20,000 party workers had applied to contest the MCD election on AAP’s ticket," it stated."The party’s preparations for the MCD Elections, as well as the political atmosphere of Delhi was discussed at length during the meeting. There was a serious discussion over the party’s surveys and election data in regard to finalisation of the lists of candidates for the elections," it informed.

AAP releases first list of 134 candidates for MCD elections The AAP said that Kejriwal took the views of all PAC members regarding the elections and candidates and the first list was announced.

It further said that the party has given weightage to the applicants who command a strong presence among the people of Delhi and workers who are constantly at the forefront of public service.

The AAP leaders said that the party has taken many safeguards in selecting eligible candidates. It had long sought applications from people interested in running for Municipal Corporation elections, so that each applicant could be thoroughly scrutinised. The party conducted extensive surveys of those who applied for ticket.