Northeast Delhi Lok Sabha Constituency: BJP’s Manoj Tiwari vs Congress’ Kanhaiya Kumar

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Manoj Tiwari of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured victory, defeating his opponents.

Key Candidates from Northeast Delhi Lok Sabha Constituency:

Manoj Tiwari, BJP:

As he kicks off his poll campaign, BJP’s Northeast Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari hopes to bag two birds with one stone — secure his re-election to the constituency this time and draw in voters for the party for next year’s state assembly elections.

Currently serving his second term as MP, the celebrity-turned-politician has emerged as the lone BJP MP from the national capital to be re-fielded by the party. Delhi will see two high-octane elections in the space of a year — Lok Sabha on May 25 and the Assembly elections in 2025.

Sitting at a crowded BJP office in Burari Wednesday, Tiwari lent an ear to nearly 300 members and representatives from 80 Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) who raised several issues plaguing the constituency — from water scarcity, road maintenance, electricity woes, to lack of street lights.

Kanhaiya Kumar , Congress:

In what party leaders termed a “winning combination of its old and new guards”, and a decision which bore the imprint of its senior leader Rahul Gandhi, the Congress announced it would field two former MPs and a young “firebrand” leader, in whom it was “investing for the future”, as its candidates for three Lok Sabha seats in the Capital.

The party announced it would field former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi against BJP’s Manoj Tiwari. The Congress’s INDIA bloc ally, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), has already declared its respective candidates for the East, South, West and New Delhi seats, which it is contesting as part of the alliance.

The 37-year-old former student leader Kanhaiya, who is in-charge of the Congress students’ body, the National Students Union of India (NSUI), was likely to make his political debut in the Capital this Lok Sabha elections. Kanhaiya will go up against popular Purvanchali celebrity Manoj Tiwari — a two-time MP, former chief of its state unit, and the sole incumbent to have been fielded by the BJP on any of Delhi’s seven Lok Sabha seats — for a potential third term in Parliament.

This will be Kanhaiya’s second attempt at a Parliamentary contest after unsuccessfully going up against Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister, Giriraj Singh, on a Communist Party of India (CPI) ticket from Bihar’s Begusarai Lok Sabha seat in 2019.

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