BJP Drops Six Of Seven Sitting MPs In Delhi; Former Mayors Harsh Malhotra, Yogendra Chandolia Make Cut | India News

BJP Delhi Lok Sabha Candidate List: The Bharatiya Janata Party has launched names for all seven seats for Delhi Lok Sabha elections and to everybody’s shock, six sitting MPs have misplaced their tickets. The MPs did not get renominated from their respective seats. The solely MP who managed to avoid wasting his seat is Manoj Tiwari, who most likely bought saved attributable to his northern roots as denying a ticket to him might have had a cascading impact in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Also, by fielding grassroots leaders, the BJP has tried to infuse new confidence amongst its employees forward of an anticipated robust contest as a result of alliance of the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress and weed out anti-incumbency. 

In its second checklist of 72 candidates, the BJP introduced to area former Mayor of the erstwhile East Delhi Municipal Corporation Harsh Malhotra the East Delhi seat and former Mayor of North Delhi Yogendra Chandolia from the North West Delhi Lok Sabha seat. Thus, the BJP changed sitting East Delhi MP Gautam Gambhir who opted out of politics and North West Delhi MP Hans Raj Hans.

In the primary checklist, the BJP had introduced 5 of the seven candidates for the Delhi polls. The occasion has fielded Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of Sushma Swaraj from the New Delhi, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi, Kamaljeet Sehrawat from the West Delhi, Praveen Khandelwal from the Chandni Chowk and retained Manoj Tiwari from the North East Delhi. Chandani Chowk was represented by Dr. Harsh Vardhan, New Delhi by Meenakshi Lekhi, South Delhi by Ramesh Bidhuri and West Delhi by Parvesh Sahib Singh Varma.

Both Malhotra and Kapoor have in depth expertise working on the grassroots degree for the occasion, having been concerned for a few years. They gained political data via their roles within the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. Chandolia, who is about to contest from the reserved North West Delhi seat, holds the excellence of being the primary Scheduled Caste chief appointed as BJP General Secretary. His expertise contains serving in several roles throughout the MCD, together with Chairman of the civic physique’s government physique, the Standing Committee. On the opposite hand, Malhotra is thought to be an organizational man.