Almost after a month of announcing first list of candidates for the ensuing assembly elections in Gujarat, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal headed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday released the second list.
The AAP had announced first list for 11 Assembly constituencies and now the party has released another list for the nine Assembly constituencies including Gandhinagar (North), Botad, Katargam, Rajkot (East), Surat (East), Karanj, Palanpur, Gandhidham and Jamnagar (Rural) said AAP’s Gujarat spokesman Harshil Nayak.
Sources in the AAP said the party would contest from maximum number of constituencies but the main criteria would be to put candidates with clean background.
Even as the two main political parties BJP (the ruling party) and the Congress are yet to announce their candidates, AAP already announced candidates for 20 constituencies out of 182.
The list of candidates suggests that the party leadership has kept caste equations in the respective constituencies.
As per the list names of Gunvant Patel (Gandhinagar-North), Jilubhai Bavaliya (Botad), Nagajibhai Ambaliya (Katargam), Ajit lokhil (Rajkot- East), Salim Multani (Surat-East), Jignesh Mehta (Karanj), Ramesh Nabhani (Palanpur), Govind Danicha (Gandhidham) and Paresh Bhanderi (Jamnagar-Rural) have finalised.
Of these nine seats six are with BJP and three with the opposition Congress party.