Delhi Assembly Election: On Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released the fourth list of nine candidates, including Shikha Rai from Greater Kailash. The saffron party fielded Kapil Mishra and Harish Khurana for the crucial elections in the national capital. Khurana, son of former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana, will contest from the Moti Nagar constituency. Deepti Indora, Urmila Kailash Gangwar, Shweta Saini, Priyanka Gautam, Neelam Pahalwan, Poonam Sharma and Shikha Rai are the party’s women candidates so far.
On Wednesday the BJP released a list of 40 star campaigners including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and New Delhi MP Bansuri Swaraj among 40 star campaigners for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections. The BJP aims to break its 26-year drought of power in Delhi, while the Congress is looking to regain a foothold after being wiped out in the past two elections. With freebies, law and order, education and governance dominating campaign agendas, the capital is bracing for an intense electoral showdown with results on February 8.
Among others are BJP president JP Nadda, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit, Roads and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, union ministers like Piyush Goyal, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Manohar Lal Khattar. In order to counter the Poorvanchal narrative, the BJP has listed Ravi Kishan, Nirahua, Manoj Tiwari, Smriti Irani, Anurag Thakur and Hema Malini.
