The Congress party on Sunday released three names for the Delhi Lok Sabha constituencies, fielding Kanhaiya Kumar from the North East Delhi seat and Udit Raj from North West Delhi. JP Agarwal has been named for the Chandni Chowk seat.
The Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are contesting the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi under a 3:4 seat-sharing agreement, with AAP contesting four seats and Congress three.
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Kanhaiya Kumar, a former Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president, came to the limelight following his 2016 arrest for allegedly raising “anti-national” slogans on the university campus.
He was later released after an investigation revealed that the slogans were raised by outsiders. Kumar now serves as the All India Congress Committee (AICC) in charge of the National Students Union of India (NSUI), the students’ wing of the Congress. He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Begusarai on a CPI ticket but lost to the BJP’s Giriraj Singh.
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Kumar will be contesting against BJP’s two-time MP from the North East Delhi constituency and Bhojpuri singer-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari.
JP Agarwal is a veteran Congress leader who previously won from the Chandni Chowk constituency in 1984, 1989, and 1996. The party has fielded him from the same seat. Udit Raj is a former MP from the North West Delhi-SC seat, having won from the constituency in 2014 as a BJP candidate. Raj joined Congress in 2019 after being denied a ticket by the saffron party.
Delhi will go to polls on May 25, with the counting of votes scheduled for June 4.