The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released the second list of 29 candidates for the Delhi Assembly elections. The saffron party fielded Kapil Mishra and Harish Khurana for the crucial elections in the national capital. Earlier, the saffron party, which has been out of power since 1998, had released its first list of candidates, naming 29 nominees for the upcoming election a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a blistering attack against the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on January 4.
Meanwhile, JP Nadd-led party selected candidates after reviewing over 2,000 applications received from the workers and leaders from all 70 constituencies in Delhi for the ticket to contest the elections.
The BJP out of power in Delhi since 1998 is making all efforts to upstage the ruling AAP that has dominated the assembly elections since 2015. The AAP romped home winning 67 and 62 seats, respectively in the last two assembly polls in 2015 and 2020. Despite winning the Lok Sabha polls on all the seven constituencies in 2014, 2019 and 2024, the BJP has failed miserably to translate that success in the assembly polls. The party scraped through with just three seats in 2015 and eight seats in 2020.
The elections for the 70 Assembly constituencies in Delhi will be held on February 5 and the results will be declared on February 8.
