Congress Candidate List for Delhi Assembly Election 2020: The Congress party has released the list of candidates for the February 8 Delhi Assembly polls. The grand old party has focused on fresh faces to take on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The party has fielded Romesh Sabharwal against Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat. The party has fielded Lakshman Rawat against Deputy CM Manish Sisodia from Patparganj. Former AAP leader Alka Lamba, who switched over to the Congress, will enter the fray from Chandni Chowk Assembly seat. Party’s election campaign committee chairman Kirti Azad’s wife Poonam Azad will contest from Sangam Vihar. Former Delhi Congress chief Arvinder Singh Lovely will contest from the Gandhi Nagar seat. Meanwhile, Adarsh Shastri, who quit the AAP after the party denied him a ticket, will contest from Dwaraka on a Congress ticket.
Here is the full list of Congress candidates declared so far:
1. Narela – Siddarth Kundu
2. Timarpur – Amar Lata Sangwan
3. Adarsh Nagar – Mukesh Goel
4. Badli – Devender Yadav
5. Rithala – Pradeep Kumar Pandey
6. Bawana – Surender Kumar
7. Mundka – Naresh Kumar
8. Sultanpur Majra – Jai Kishan
9. Nangloi – Jat Mandeep Singh
10. Mangol Puri – Rajesh Lilotia
11. Rohini – Sumesh Gupta
12. Shalimar Bagh – JS Nayol
13. Shakur Basti – Dev Raj Arora
14. Tri Nagar – Kamal Kant Sharma
15. Wazirpur – Hari Kishan Sharma
16. Model Town – Akanksha Ola
17. Sadar Bazar – Satbir Sharma
18. Chandni Chowk – Alka Lamba
19. Matia Mahal – Mirza Javed Ali
20. Ballimaran – Haroon Yusuf
21. Karol Bagh – Gaurav Dhanak
22. Patel Nagar – Krishna Tirath
23. Moti Nagar – Ramesh Kumar Popli
24. Rajouri Garden – Amandeep Singh Sudan
25. Hari Nagar – Surender Sethi
26. Janakpuri – Radhika Khera
27. Dwarka – Adarsh Shastri
28. Matiala – Sumesh Shokeen
29. Nazafgarh – Sahib Singh Yadav
30. Delhi Cantt – Sandeep Tanwar
31. Jangpura – Talvinder Singh Marwah
32. Kasturba Nagar – Abhishek Dutt
33. Malviya Nagar – Neetu Verma
34. RK Puram – Priyanka Singh
35. Chhatarpur – Satish Lohia
36. Deoli – Arvinder Singh
37. Ambedkar Nagar – Yaduraj Chaudhary
38. Sangam Vihar – Poonam Azad
39. Greater Kailash – Sukhbir Singh Pawar
40. Kalkaji – Shivani Chopra
41. Tughlakabad – Shubham Sharma
42. Trilokpuri – Vijay Kumar
43. Patparganj – Laxman Ravat
44. Laxmi Nagar – Hari Dutt Sharma
45. Vishwas Nagar – Guru Charan Singh Raju
46. Krishna Nagar – Ashok Walia
47. Gandhi Nagar – Arvind Singh Lovely
48. Shah Dara – Narender Nath
49. Seema Puri – Veer Singh Dhingan
50. Rohtas Nagar – Vipin Sharma
51. Seelampur – Mateen Ahmed
52. Babarpur – Anveeksha Tripathi Jain
53. Gokalpur – SP Singh
54. Mustafabad – Ali Mehndi
55. Tilak Nagar – S Raminder Singh Bamrah
56. Rajinder Nagar – Rocky Tuseed
57. New Delhi – Romesh Sabharwal
58. Badarpur – Pramod Kumar Yadav
59. Kondli – Amareesh Goutham
60. Ghonda – Bhisham Sharma
61. Karawal Nagar – Arvind Singh
62. Madipur – Jai Prakash Panwar
63. Vikaspuri – Mukesh Sharma
64. Bijwasan – Parveen Rana
65. Mehrauli – Mohinder Chaudhary
66. Okhla – Parvez Hashmi
The Delhi Legislative Assembly has 70 seats. Polling will take place on February 8 and results will be declared on February 11. The Congress ruled Delhi under the leadership of Sheila Dikshit for 15 years between 1998 and 2013. In the 2015 Assembly elections, the grand old party drew a blank.