"We are forming government in Delhi...": BJP candidate Ajay Mahawar
Jan 04, 2025
New Delhi [India], January 4 : Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ajay Mahawar has expressed gratitude to the party's top leadership after he was given a ticket from the Ghonda assembly seat for the Delhi assembly polls expected to be held in February 2025.
"I express my gratitude to the party leadership. We are forming the government. Within the next two months, there will be a Chief Minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party and we will do development work in the double-engine government under the leadership of PM Modi," Ajay Mahawar told ANI.
BJP released its first list of 29 candidates for Delhi assembly elections on Saturday. The party has fielded Parvesh Verma from the New Delhi assembly seat against AAP leader and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The contest from New Delhi has become triangular with Congress fielding Sandeep Dixit from the seat.
The BJP has fielded Dushyant Gautam from Karol Bagh, Manjinder Singh Sirsa from Rajouri Garden, Kailash Gehlot from Bijwasan, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar.
BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri will contest against Delhi Chief Minister Atishi from Kalkaji.
Parvesh Verma, a former MP, is son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma. AAP and Congress have also announced their candidates for Delhi assembly polls.
Aam Aadmi Party had won 62 out of 70 seats in the 2020 assembly elections. In the assembly elections held in 2015, it came to power with full majority by winning 67 out of 70 seats.
