Lok Sabha polls: BJP’s Delhi picks to kick off process of filing nominations on Monday

In the 2019 and 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP made a clean sweep of all seven seats in Delhi.

The process will be started by the party’s Northwest Delhi candidate Yogendra Chandolia, who is up against Congress candidate Udit Raj. (Photo: Yogendra Chandolia/ X)

Starting Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidates for Delhi will start the process of filing their nominations for the Lok Sabha polls. Delhi will vote on May 25 in the sixth phase.

According to Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva, the process will be started by the party’s Northwest Delhi candidate Yogendra Chandolia, who is up against Congress candidate Udit Raj.

On April 30, New Delhi candidate Bansuri Swaraj, who is contesting against AAP’s Somnath Bharti, will file her nomination.

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She will be followed by Harsh Malhotra, fielded from the East Delhi constituency, on May 1. The same evening, he will hold a roadshow led by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

Malhotra is up against AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar.

Sachdeva said the dates for the remaining four candidates — Manoj Tiwari from Northeast Delhi, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South, Kamaljeet Sehrawat from West Delhi and Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk — will be notified.

In the 2019 and 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP made a clean sweep of all seven seats in Delhi. AAP and Congress, who are part INDIA bloc, are fighting the upcoming polls together in Delhi, sharing the seats in a ratio of 3 (Congress ) and 4 (AAP).

The counting of votes will be done on June 4.

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