The former five time Congress MP Jai Prakash Aggarwal filed his nomination for the Chandni Chowk constituency on Saturday ahead of the Lok Sabha 2024 elections slated to be held in the national capital on May 25. Both AAP and Congress party workers took part in the celebrations of the day of nomination filing by the joint Congress and INDIA alliance candidate.

Aggarwal performed a puja at his residence before heading out to the HDM office in Alipur to file the nomination. A seasoned politician, he claimed that he is going to win the seat 100 per cent. The atmosphere was filled with enthusiasm with party workers chanting slogans of ‘JP Aggarwal zindabad’ and ‘Congress party zindabad’.

In the national capital, the Congress and AAP are fighting together against the BJP, who has for two successive terms, swept all the seats. While the grand old party is fighting from three seats, AAP is contesting elections in the city from four seats. While some party leaders wore Congress scarfs, the AAP party flag was also seen fluttering at the event.

After performing the rituals, Aggarwal headed towards Alipur with the Delhi Congress interim President Devendra Yadav in his car. Yadav, who was appointed by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge after the former Delhi Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned from the post on April 28, took to X (formerly Twitter) said, “Today, I was present at the nomination program of JP Agarwal, Congress candidate for Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat. The enthusiasm of Chandni Chowk constituency is telling that the people’s mandate is for Congress. We will win all the seven seats of Delhi.”

Further, the workers and supporters claimed that they are poised to win all the seven seats in Delhi and that the former MP from the Chandni Chowk seat has the support of the people. While stepping out of his home, many leaders and workers showered flowers on him and greeted with garlands.

“INDIA alliance is winning all seven (Lok Sabha) seats in Delhi with good margin. In Chandni Chowk, we are winning the constituency by over 2 lakh votes," said Delhi Deputy Mayor Aaley Mohammad Iqbal on Aggarwal contesting from Chandni Chowk constituency.

BJP candidate Praveen Khandelwal is contesting against Aggarwal, who filed his nominations on Friday in the presence of sitting MP from the seat Harsh Vardhan and Union Minister Piyush Goyal.

Meanwhile, Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said here it seems that Congress candidate Jai Prakash Agrawal from Chandni Chowk parliamentary constituency has already accepted his defeat even before the elections. Making this assertion, Kapoor said that is why he did not consider it necessary to go on a procession with local workers to file his nomination on the day of filing nominations from his parliamentary constituency.

Traditionally, not only in the country but also all over the world, candidates gather people in the election constituency on the day of their nomination, showing their strength to their voters, he said.

Like BJP candidate Praveen Khandelwal, Agrawal also has an old ancestral mansion in Old Delhi, but on Saturday the Congress candidate did not consider it necessary to start his election campaign from there because Congress does not have workers, and ten AAP MLAs from the area are only with him for show. Neither AAP MLAs are ready to give public support to Agrawal nor economic support.

Because of this, Agrawal has become the first candidate in the history of Delhi elections from 1952 to 2024 who started his nomination yatra from another parliamentary constituency, i.e., New Delhi, and so could not even start his nomination journey from his own constituency, BJP leader said.