The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday released its second list of 20 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, naming senior party leader Manish Sisodia as the candidate for the Jangpura seat.
Educator Avadh Ojha, who recently joined the AAP, has been fielded from the Patparganj seat, currently held by Sisodia.
The list also includes the names of Jintender Singh Shunty (fielded from Shahdara) and Surinder Pal Singh Bittu (Timarpur), who recently quit the BJP and joined AAP.
Shunty replaces Ram Niwas Goel (Shahdara), the sitting AAP MLA and Speaker in the outgoing Assembly, while Bittu is fielded from Timarpur in place of Dilip Pandey, AAP’s chief whip in the House.
The AAP had announced 11 candidates in its first list for the polls.
The elections for the 70-member Delhi Assembly are due before February.
The elections will be a three-way contest between the AAP, the Congress and the BJP. The AAP and Congress are part of the Opposition’s INDIA bloc at the national level but decided to fight the state-level polls separately.
Arvind Kejriwal had earlier said that his party is poised to secure an overwhelming majority in the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections, terming the electoral battle a “moral struggle” against the BJP.
The AAP won 62 of the 70 assembly seats in the last Delhi Assembly elections in 2020.