BJP releases first list of 57 candidates for Delhi assembly election; Kapil Mishra to contest from Model Town

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming assembly election in Delhi. Kapil Mishra, who was ousted from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has been fielded from Model Town. Ravi Negi has been fielded from Patparganj and will take on Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia while the party has fielded Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from Badarpur.

Notably, BJP has not declared its candidate against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi Assembly constituency. The list includes 11 candidates from seats reserved for the Schedule caste community and there are four women candidates - Rekha Gupta from Shalimar Bagh, Lata Shori from Ballimaran, Shikha Rai from Greater Kailash and Kiran Vaid from Trilokpuri.

Take a look at the party candidates of BJP for Delhi assembly election:

Constituency	Name
Narela	Nildaman
Timarpur	Surendra Singh Bittu
Adarsh Nagar	Rajkumar Bhatia
Badli	Vijay Bhagat
Rithala	Manish Chaudhary
Bawana (SC)	Ravindra Kumar
Munrika	Master Azad Singh
Kirari	Anil Jha
Sultanpur Majra (SC)	Ramchandra Chabariya
Mangolpuri (SC)	Karam Singh Karma
Rohini	Vijendra Gupta
Shalimar Bagh	Rekha Gupta
Shakurbasti	SP Vats
Trinagar	Tilakram Gupta
Wazirpur	Dr. Mahendra Nagpal
Model Town	Kapil Mishra
Chandni Chowk	Suman Kumar Gupta
Sadar Bazaar	Jay Prakash
Badli	Vijay Bhagat
Matia Mahal	Shree Ravinder Gupta (Minister)
Ballimaran	Lata Shori
Karol Bagh (SC)	Yogendra Chandalia
Patel Nagar (SC)	Parvesh Ratan
Moti Nagar	Subhash Sachdeva
Madipur (SC)	Shri Kailash
Tilak Nagar	Rajiv Babbar
Vikaspuri	Shri Sanjay Singh
Uttam Nagar	Krishna Gehlot
Dwarka	Pardyuman Rajput
Matialia	Rajesh Gehlot
Nazafgarh	Ajit Kharkhari
Bijwasan	Satprakash Rana
Palam	Vijay Pandit
Rajinder Nagar	RP Singh
Jangpura	Sardar Kulpreet Singh Bhakshi
Malvia Nagar	Shailendra Singh Monty
RK Puram	Anil Sharma
Chhatarpur	Brahm Singh Tawar
Deoli (SC)	Arvind Kumar
Ambedkar Nagar (SC)	Khusi Ram
Greater Kailash	Shikha Rai
Tughlkabad extension	Vikram Badhuri
Badarpur	Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
Okhla	Brahm Singh
Trilokpuri	Kiran Vaid
Kondli	Rajkumar Dillo
Patparganj	Ravi Negi
Laxmi Nagar	Abhay Kumar Verma
Vishwas Nagar	OP Sharma
Gandhi Nagar	Anil Vajpayee
Rohtas Nagar	Jitendra Mahajan
Seelampur	Kaushal Mishra
Ghonda	Ajay Mahawar
Babarpur	Naresh Gaur
Gokalpur (SC)	Ranjit Kashyap
Mustafabad	Jagdish Pradhan
Karawal Nagar	Mohan Singh Bisht

The election to the 70 assembly seats will be held on February 8, 2010 while the counting of votes will take place on February 11. The Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into force since January 6 immediately after Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora announced dates for Delhi Assembly Election.

Nominations for the Delhi elections began on Tuesday. The last date to file nomination is January 21, the scrutiny will take place on January 22 while the last date of withdrawal of candidature is January 24.

The term of the current assembly elected in 2015 will end on February 22, 2020.