BJP’s 1st Delhi list comprising 57 names including Vijender Gupta

New Delhi: The BJP on Friday released its first list of candidates for the February 8 Delhi Assembly elections, comprising 57 names including senior leader Vijender Gupta who will fight from Rohini and AAP rebel Kapil Mishra from Model Town.

Gupta was among the BJP’s three winning candidates in the 2015 elections, while Mishra is a former AAP minister who rebelled and joined the BJP.

BJP’s national secretary RP Singh is being fielded from Rajinder Nagar, while Shikha Rai is the candidate from the upscale Greater Kailash. From Tughlaqabad, the candidate is Vikram Bidhuri, a relative of BJP’s South Delhi MP Ramesh Bidhuri.

The list was released by BJP’s Delhi chief Manoj Tiwari who claimed that his party is confident of a win in the state, where it has been out of power since 1998. (IANS)

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