BJP Releases First Candidate List For Delhi Assembly Elections; Nominates Parvesh Verma Against Kejriwal

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its first list of 29 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.

Delhi Assembly Polls: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of 29 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections.  The party nominated former West Delhi MP Parves to contest against AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and Congress's Sandip Dixit from New Delhi.

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Parvesh Verma to contest from New Delhi assembly seat against AAP's Arvind Kejriwal; Dushyant Gautam from Karol Bagh, Manjinder Singh Sirsa from Rajouri Garden, Kailash Gehlot from Bijwasan, Arvinder… pic.twitter.com/jcvaW418U8 — ANI (@ANI) January 4, 2025

The party has nominated Dushyant Gautam from Karol Bagh, Manjinder Singh Sirsa from Rajouri Garden, Kailash Gehlot from Bijwasan, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar from upcoming Delhi polls.

Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician and the current MP from the West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency, has been tasked with strengthening the BJP's organization in New Delhi. Verma, the son of former senior BJP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma, recently told to ANI that he is prepared to take on Arvind Kejriwal.

Verma represented the West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency from 2014 to 2019 and also secured the Mehrauli seat in the 2013 assembly elections. 

His father Sahib Singh Verma served as the chief minister of Delhi between 1996 and 1998. The five-year term of the Delhi Assembly is ending in 2025 and there is a possibility of elections being held in February.

Aam Aadmi Party had won 62 out of 70 seats in the 2020 assembly elections. In the assembly elections held in 2015, it came to power for the first time with the full majority by winning 67 out of 70 seats.