Maken, Tytler And 2 Others In Delhi Cong List

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New Delhi, April 10: Delhi Assembly speaker Ajay Maken and a former Union minister accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots Jagdish Tytler figured among four candidates named for contesting from the city even as suspense over candidature at three other seats continued amid intense wranglings.

Maken, former transport and power minister, is fielded from the New Delhi constituency against tourism minister and BJP leader Jagmohan.

Announcement about candidature of Maken, who had earlier been unofficially tipped for the constituency, was made hours after the party released a list of three nominees — Tytler from Delhi Sadar, former Delhi minister Krishna Tirath from Karol Bagh (SC) and noted lawyer RK Anand from South Delhi.

The Congress, which had lost all the seven seats from the Capital in the 1999 polls, is unable to finalise a “consensus” candidate for East Delhi, Outer Delhi and Chandni Chowk constituencies.

The party is finding it difficult to choose between the chief minister’s son Sandeep Dikshit and a local businessman Anil Bhardwaj from the East Delhi seat. Dikshit has the support of party’s 15 of 16 MLAs of the Lok Sabha constituency while Bhardwaj is said to have blessings of party president’s daughter Priyanka Gandhi.