Twenty nominations were received on Friday for the upcoming Delhi Assembly polls. On Day 3 of the nominations, five hopefuls from Indian National Congress (INC) and two from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) filed their candidacy.
Nand Kumar Paswan, an Independent candidate, filed his nomination from Mangolpuri (SC) seat. Indian National Congress’ Amrish Singh Gautam filed his nominations and Aam Aadmi Party’s Manoj Kumar filed nominations from Kondli (SC) constituency. Under violation of Model Code of Conduct, 61 FIRs have been lodged against political parties. Out of which 23 are against Aam Aadmi Party, (13) BJP, (17) Congress, (5) BSP, (1) RJD, (1) INlD and (1) unknown respectively.
In Shahdara, an Independent candidate Preeti and Aam Aadmi Party’s Ram Niwas Goyal filed their nominations. INC’s Madan Mohan filed his nomination. An Independent candidate Kailash Shanker Trivedi filed his nomination from Kalkaji seat. INC’s two candidates Parlad Singh Sawhney and Ranjit Kaur Sawhney filed nominations from Chandni Chowk Assembly constituency.
Ritu Kaushik, a candidate from an unrecognised party, filed her candidature from Sadar Bazar. Sanjay Khatri, an Independent candidate, filed nominations from Greater Kailash seat. An Independent candidate, Sarita Kumari filed nominations from Rajender Nagar.
Till Day 3, 1,286 hoardings were removed from public areas, out of which 372 were removed on 15 January whereas 60 FIRs have been lodged till January 15. Twenty six hoardings (defacement) of private property have been removed out of which two hoardings were removed on 15 January. These are in addition to the removal being done by the local bodies.
Total 3,773 people have also been booked under various sections of CRPC/DP Act, 28 licensed arms deposited, 1 unlicensed arm and 4 cartridges have been seized. 23 bottles, 15,675 quarters of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFl), 130 bottles, 23 half and 3,885 quarters of country liquor and 72 beer bottles were seized as part of expenditure management measure.
A total of 26 application received by media certification monitoring committee CEO office from political parties. 23 applications were received from BJP, 1 from Congress, 2 from AAP. Twenty five certificates were issued and 1 pending.