Delhi Assembly elections: Congress on Tuesday released another list for the upcoming Assembly elections in national capital. It has fielded former AAP MLA Dharam Pal Lakda who joined Congress recently has been fielded from Mundka and former Union Minister Krishna Tirath has been fielded from Patel Nagar.
Congress has fielded former MLA Asif Mohammad Khan's daughter and Shaheenbagh councilor Ariba Khan as its candidate from Delhi's Okhla Assembly.
The AAP has already released its list of 70 candidates and the party is campaigning aggressively in the polls. Arvind Kejriwal will again contest from the New Delhi seat and the BJP has fielded Saheb Singh Verma's son Parvesh Verma against him.
In an earlier list, Alka Lamba has been fielded against Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Atishi, and BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri. Among the other candidates, Ali Mahndi will fight from Mustafabad, Abdul Rehman from Seelampur, Rohit Chaudhry from Nangloi Jat and Praveen Jain from Shalimar Bagh. Aruna Kumari has been fielded from Narela, Mangesh Tyagi from Burari, Shivani Singhal from Adarsh Nagar, Jai Kishan from Sultanpur Majra (SC), Mudit Agarwal from Chandni Chowk, PS Bawa from Tilak Nagar, Anil Bhardwaj from Sadar Bazar, Abhishek Dutt from Kastuba Nagar, Jay Prakash from Ambedkar Nagar (SC) and Garvit Singhvi from Greater Kailash. It has also fielded ex-MP Sandeep Dikshit from New Delhi, setting up a potential contest between him and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal.