- By Anushka Vats
- Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:00 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Kanhaiya Kumar has been fielded from North East Delhi. His name was announced in the latest list of candidates for Congress on Sunday, along with nine other candidates from Punjab, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh. He will be fighting from the North East seat against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manoj Tiwari. Notably, this will be the second time Kanhaiya Kumar will be contesting Lok Sabha elections. In 2019, he contested on Communist Party of India ticket from Bihar's Begusarai but had to face defeat from BJP leader and Union Minister Giriraj Singh.
Besides Kanhaiya Kumar, Congress has fielded Jai Prakash Agarwal from the Chandni Chowk seat and Udit Raj at the North West Delhi seat.
Manoj Tiwari vs Kanhaiya Kumar
After losing polls in 2019 on a CPI ticket, Kanhaiya Kumar, the former JNUSU president joined Congress in 2021. He was inducted in party's Congress Working Committee in 2023. Meanwhile, Manoj Tiwari is set to fight the battle from North East Delhi for the third time. He won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and registered a victory against former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar (Image Credits: ANI)
BJP Changes Six Of Seven Sitting MPs in Delhi
This time, the Bharatiya Janata Party has dropped all the old names, except Manoj Tiwari from the seven Lok Sabha seats. Kamaljeet Sehrawat will replace Parvesh Verma, the Sitting MP from West Delhi. Ramvir Singh Bidhuri has replaced Ramesh Bidhuri, who represented South Delhi. Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of former Union minister Sushma Swaraj, will fight from New Delhi replacing Meenakshi Lekhi. Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, who represented Chandini Chowk been replaced by Lok Praveen Khandelwal.
Harsha Malhotra has been named as a candidate for the East Delhi seat and Yogendra Chandolia for the North West Delhi seat. While Gautam Gambhir represented the East Delhi seat earlier, Hans Raj Hans represented North West Delhi.