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Delhi Assembly Elections 2020: AAP drops 15 sitting MLAs from candidates’ list

The AAP has dropped as many as 15 outgoing MLAs from its candidates’ list for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

Defections, rebellions and sulking leaders of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party might not give Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia or the current dispensation of the party sleepless nights, but the moot question is will it even cause a dent in the party fortunes come February 11.

The AAP has dropped as many as 15 outgoing MLAs from its candidates’ list for the upcoming Delhi assembly elections.

A prominent sitting MLA who was ousted from the list is former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s grandson Adarsh Shastri. He had represented Dwarka in the previous assembly elections. Shastri has been replaced by Vinay Mishra, who joined the party days before he was given the ticket. Mishra is the son of Congress leader and former Delhi MP Mahabal Mishra.

Badarpur MLA N D  Sharma has been replaced with Ram Singh Netaji, while Delhi Cantonment MLA Surender Singh, a former NSG commando who served the Army for 14 years and retired after he lost his hearing during the operation at the Taj Palace Hotel during 26/11 attacks has been replaced with former defence man Virender Singh Kadian.

The party has nominated councillor Abdul Rehman as its  candidate from Seelampur. He is accused of inciting violence during anti-CAA protests in Uttar Pradesh.

Former Congress leader  and five-term MLA Shoaib Iqbal, who has many criminal cases against him, was nominated by the ruling party to contest from Matia Mahal, his stronghold.

In Chandni Chowk, AAP has fielded former Congress leader and four-time MLA Prahlad Sawhney. The sitting MLA from the constituency,  Alka Lamba is the Congress candidate.

Durgesh Pathak is the APP candidate from Karawal Nagar, which was represented by former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra, who is now with the BJP.

Sitting AAP MLA Devender Shekhawat from Bijwasan joined the BJP, so in his place the party has fielded lawyer B.S. Joon.

In Gandhi Nagar, AAP has given the ticket to social activist Naveen Choudhary, who was considered close to the Congress party.

Kondli MLA Manoj Kumar, who was convicted last year for assaulting a woman, was replaced with Kuldeep Kumar.

Timarpur MLA Pankaj Pushkar, considered close to Prashant Bhushan, has made way for Dilip Pandey, a key confidante of Kejriwal.

Considered to be in a formidable position, AAP is playing the game safely. Pundits had expected some changes in the list of candidates for the assembly election, however, the move to drop 15 MLAs was unexpected. Arvind Kejriwal is still hopeful that the 15 ex-legislators would stay back in the AAP family.

Delhi goes to polls on February 8, 2020.

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MCD elections 2022: AAP announces second list of 117 candidates

Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will take place on December 4, and the counting of votes will be done on December 7.

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MCD elections 2022: AAP announces second list of 117 candidates

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced the second list of 117 candidates for the upcoming Delhi MCD elections on Saturday. The party released the first list of 134 candidates on Friday.

Along with the list of candidates, AAP tweeted Our second list of candidates for the upcoming MCD elections is here! Congratulations to all. Delhi will Vote for Jhaadu to clean the 3 Garbage Mountains gifted by the BJP.

Bobby Kinnar, a member of the transgender community, has been nominated by the party to run in the upcoming elections from Sultanpuri-A Ward. One seat has been reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) candidates in the Sultanpuri-A ward. Sanjeev Kumar of the AAP won the seat in the 2017 elections.

In addition, Kejriwal announced the party’s manifesto for the elections on December 4, promising that his administration would endeavour to uphold 10 guarantees.

Earlier in the day, at a press conference, Kejriwal had dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to tell the public about five things that they have done in the MCD in the last 15 years. He said Forget even five things, let them [BJP] come out and tell us about two things that they have done in the MCD. They just hold press conferences and abuse Arvind Kejriwal 24 hours a day, he stated.

BJP on Saturday unveiled its initial list of 232 candidates for the civic body elections, with the nominees including 126 women, three Muslims, seven Sikhs, and nine former mayors.

Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections will take place on December 4, and the counting of votes will be done on December 7. Voting for 68 assembly seats will be held from 8 am to 5:30 pm on December 4.

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Delhi MCD elections: Voting on December 4, result on December 7

As per the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the number of MCD wards has come down to 250 this year from 272.

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Delhi MCD elections: Voting on December 4, result on December 7

The state election commission (SEC) of Delhi announced the schedule for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections 2022 today. The elections will take place on December 4 and the counting of votes will be held on December 7.

The SEC stated that the model code of conduct will come into force from today. Hoarding and banners used for the election campaign will be removed. As per the notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the number of MCD wards has come down to 250 this year from 272.

Delhi MCD election schedule

Issue of notification – November 7
Last date of filing nomination – November 14
Scrutiny of nomination- November 16
Last date for withdrawal of candidate- November 19
Date of polls- December 4
Counting of votes – December 7
Completion of the entire election process – December 15

Vijay Dev, Delhi State Election Commissioner stated out of those 42 seats for SC, 21 seats will be for SC women. 104 seats will be reserved for women, he said.

Delhi Election Commission said that nominations will start in Delhi from November 7 and the last date to file nominations is November 14. As per the EC, out of 70 assembly seats, elections will take place in 68 seats. No polling could be held on two seats due to the death of candidates.

The EC has appointed Returning Officers and has taken the objections and suggestions of the public as well as political parties into consideration, by setting up polling booths at the ward level.

EC said immediate action will be taken against illegal hoardings and posters from today onwards. Loudspeakers will not be allowed from 10 pm to 6 am. The nomination of the candidates will be done from 10 am to 3 pm at 68 places. The police have also been instructed to provide proper security. Candidates can spend between Rs 5.75 lakhs and Rs 8 lakhs.

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Stop crying like Congress: Manish Sisodia slams BJP over delaying Delhi MCD poll dates

Manish Sisodia came down heavily on BJP after Union Minister Smriti Irani accused AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal of depriving the MCD employees of Rs 13,000 crores.

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Manish Sisodia slams Gujarat government on introducing Bhagavad Gita in school syllabus, says their deeds like Raavan and they talk about Gita

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for delaying Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections in the capital. Sisodia in a press conference slammed the BJP government and asked them not to cry like Congress and said that there will be a big achievement for BJP if they even win 10 seats. If you have the courage then don’t run away, fight (contest MCD elections) with us, Sisodia added.

Sisodia came down heavily on BJP after Union Minister Smriti Irani accused AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal of depriving the MCD employees of Rs 13,000 crores. Kejriwal had earlier in the day conducted a press conference in which he expressed outrage over the postponement of municipal corporation elections in the national capital, claiming that doing so weakens the democratic system.

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Kejriwal in a statement said that the date for MCD polls was to be announced at 5 p.m. on March 9, but the same day an hour ago, Centre wrote to State EC to combine all 3 civic bodies into one, and to delay polls. EC agreed to do so. The State Election Commissioner must reveal if he was threatened (by Centre) with ED, I-T, CBI raids, or has been given a post-retirement role after April. he added.

Responding to Kejriwal’s statement, Irani said Kejriwal has deprived the people of Delhi of the strongest unit of Democracy, of its funds, adding, they (AAP) are requested to allow development work to be done till the slums of the poor, let the reform work be done.

The MCD election dates are yet to be issued by the Centre, according to the State Election Commissioner, who is investigating certain legal objections presented by the central government. The Centre intends to restructure the MCD by combining Delhi’s three municipal corporations.

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