Delhi Meeting Polls: The Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) on Sunday launched its third listing for the upcoming Delhi meeting elections. The saffron occasion has fielded Mohan Singh Bisht from Mustafabad, the one title on the listing introduced as we speak.
With the newest announcement, the BJP has declared candidates for 60 out of the 70 Meeting seats. Bisht is the saffron occasion’s sitting MLA from the Karawal Nagar constituency. Bisht, who beforehand represented the Karawal Nagar seat, has been changed by Kapil Mishra.
BJP declares third listing of 1 candidate for #DelhiElections2025
Mohan Singh Bisht to contest from Mustafabad pic.twitter.com/6tLzSeeTGT
— ANI (@ANI) January 12, 2025
Earlier within the day, Bisht expressed his dissatisfaction after his title didn’t seem on the second candidate listing of the saffron occasion, and Mishra was given a ticket from Karawal Nagar.
Bisht dubbed it a “large mistake” and stated that he wouldn’t contest elections from another constituency and would file his nomination from Karawal Nagar earlier than January 17. A senior BJP chief, nonetheless, instructed information company PTI that Bisht was pacified after a gathering with saffron occasion chief JP Nadda. On Saturday, the BJP launched its second listing of 29 candidates for the upcoming meeting polls.
The saffron occasion fielded former AAP chief Kapil Mishra from Karawal Nagar. Mishra received the Karawal Nagar seat within the 2015 Meeting elections, defeating four-time BJP MLA Mohan Singh Bisht. Nonetheless, within the 2020 Meeting elections, he contested on a BJP ticket from the Mannequin City seat however misplaced to AAP candidate Akhilesh Pati Tripathi by a margin of over 10 %.
The Delhi meeting polls will likely be held in a single part on February 5, and the counting of votes will happen on February 8. The final date for submitting nominations is January 17. The date for scrutiny of nominations is January 18. The final date for withdrawal of candidature is January 20. A 3-way contest is on the playing cards in Delhi between the ruling AAP, BJP, and Congress.
After a historic win of 67 out of 70 seats in 2015, AAP dominated the 2020 meeting elections as effectively by profitable 62 out of 70 seats whereas the BJP received eight seats. Congress, which was in energy for 15 consecutive years in Delhi, has suffered setbacks within the final two meeting elections and has did not win any seat.
