The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday released the fourth list of candidates for the upcoming lok Sabha polls. Among the 61 candidates announced, the AAP fielded journalist Ashish Khaitan from New Delhi constituency against the sitting Congress MlA from the same constituency, Ajay Maken. In the State Assembly, the New Delhi constituency was represented by party Chief Arvind Kejriwal, who defeated three-time Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
Former Tehelka journalist Khaitan is the founder of news portal gulail.com that had leveled charges against Narendra Modi over alleged illegal surveillance of a woman architect by the Gujarat Police.
In South Delhi, a constituency that has Defence pockets, the party has fielded Col Devendra Sehrawat, a former Defence personnel who was defeated in the Delhi Assembly elections, held last year, by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sat Prakash Rana in Bijwasan constituency.
In NCR regions like Gautam Budh Nagar in UP and Faridabad in Haryana, KP Singh and Purushottam Dagar, respectively, have been fielded.
AAP has till now announced candidates for 131 seats across the country. The fourth list has names of two candidates from Delhi, four from Haryana, 13 from Karnataka, three from Punjab and 38 from UP. The party has declared a list of 13 candidates from Karnataka, which includes V Balakrishnan, former Chief Financial Officer of the IT-giant Infosys, who recently joined the party. He will contest from Bangalore Central lok Sabha seat.
AAP had already announced their five candidates from Delhi for the lok Sabha polls. AAP has nominated former journalist Ashutosh against Union Minister Kapil Sibal from the Chandni Chowk constituency and Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson Rajmohan Gandhi was nominated from East Delhi constituency against former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit. Former journalist and AAP leader Jarnail Singh nominated from West Delhi parliamentary constituency, while National executive member and JNU professor Anand Kumar will be facing Congress veteran JP Agrawal from North-East Delhi. Social activist Mahendra Singh will contest against Union Minister Krishna Tirath from North West Delhi. Party has nominated Yogendra Yadav from Gurgaon.