In a bid to speed up the process of finalising the party’s manifesto and scrutiny of candidature forms, the Election Committee (EC) and Manifesto Committee of the Delhi Congress will be holding talks on Tuesday. The meeting will be held at Himachal Sadan in Chanakyapuri.
Meanwhile, over 1,400 people have scrambled for Congress tickets to contest the Delhi Assembly polls scheduled for December 4.
The maximum number of candidature forms has been received from Trilokpuri constituency. On the other hand, only one form from Kalkaji and Badarpur has been received.
Sources in the Congress stated that the Delhi Congress Election Committee is likely to meet on Tuesday to scrutinise the applications received for the upcoming Assembly polls.
The final list is expected to be announced by the second week of November. Sources said that they would take at least two days to scrutinise the forms and after that the Central
Election Committee will meet to further scan the list.
The Manifesto Committee is also likely to meet to give final shape to the policy of the party. According to sources, members are likely to submit their suggestions before the Manifesto Committee.
Delhi Congress president Jai Prakash Agarwal is the chairman of the Manifesto Committee as well, while Delhi party in-charge Shakeel Ahmed, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and her Cabinet Ministers Ramakant Goswami, Prof Kiran Walia, Arvinder Singh lovely, Vishwa Bandu Gupta, Mukesh Goel, Abhijit Singh Gulati, Farhad Suri, Varyam Kaur are the other members.
Congress candidate Ram Singh Netaji and former Speaker of Delhi Assembly Subhash Chopra has applied from Badarpur and Kalkaji seats respectively.
There are over three dozen constituencies from where more than 20 applications have been received.
AAP names candidates for Rajouri, Ambedkar Nagar
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday announced names of two more candidates who will contest the December 4 Assembly elections. The two new candidates are social workers Pratipal Singh Saluja from Rajouri Garden and Ashok Singh Chauhan from Ambedkar Nagar. With this announcement, the total count of declared AAP candidates has reached 58 out of the 70 Assembly constituencies.
The shortlisted candidates have been declared for three constituencies — Adarsh Nagar, Tri Nagar and Jangpuram, while for the remaining nine constituencies, i.e., Timarpur, Sultanpur Majra, Nangloi Jat, Moti Nagar, Palam, Kasturba Nagar, Krishna Nagar, Shahdara and Seelampur, the selection process is underway.