The Congress that released the list of 54 candidates for the February 8 Delhi Assembly polls, on Saturday, has focused on fresh faces to take on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has made its governance model and people-friendly policies as the poll plank.
The Congress has shunned the conservative path to the election and has benched the old-timers. The prominent faces in the first list included Haroon Yusuf from Ballimaran, Adarsh Shastri from Dwarka, Rajesh Lilotia from Mangolpuri, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhinagar, Alka Lamba from Chandni Chowk, Krishna Tirath from Patel Nagar, Mateen Ahmed from Seelampur, A.K. Walia from Krishna Nagar, Poonam Azad from Sangam Vihar and Abhishek Dutt from Kasturba Nagar.
However, the Congress is yet to announce candidate for the New Delhi seat to take on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. The Congress is expected to soon announce 12 more candidates, leaving four seats for the Rashtriya Janata Dal, alliance partner.
Here is Congress' first list of 54 candidates:
1. Siddarth Kundu - Nerala
2. Mrs. Amar Lata Sangwan - Timarpur
3. Mukesh Goel - Adarsh Nagar
4. Devendra Yadav - Badli
5. Pradeep Kumar Pandey - Rithala
6. Surendra Kumar - Bawana
7. Dr. Naresh Kumar - Mundka
8. Jai Kishan - Sultanpur Majra
9. Mandeep Singh - Nangloi Jat
10. Rajesh Lilitia - Mangol Puri
11. Samesh Gupta - Rohini
12. JS Nayol - Shalimarbagh
13. Dev Raj Arora - Shakur Basti
14. Kamal Kant Sharma - Tri Nagar
15. Hari Kishan Jindal - Wazirpur
16. Akansha Ola - Model Town
17. Satbir Sharma - Sadar Bazar
18. Alka Lamba - Chandni Chowk
19. Mirza Javed Ali - Matia Mahal
20. Haroon Yusuf - Ballimaran
21. Gaurav Dhanak - Karol Bagh
22. Krishna Tirath - Patel Nagar
23. Ramesh Kumar Popli - Moti Nagar
24. Amandeep Singh Sudan - Rajouri Garden
25. Surendra Sethi - Hari Nagar
26. Radhika Khera - Janakpuri
27. Adarsh Shastri - Dwarka
28. Sumesh Shokeen - Matiala
29. Sahib Singh Yadav - Najafgarh
30. Sandeep Tanwar - Delhi Cantt
31. Talvinder Singh Marwah - Jangpur
32. Abhishek Dutt - Kasturba Nagar
33. Neetu Verma - Malviya Nagar
34. Priyanka Singh - RK Puram
35. Satish Lohia - Chhatarpur
36. Arvinder Singh - Deoli
37. Yaduraj Chaudary - Ambedkar Nagar
38. Poonam Azad - Sangam Vihar
39. Sukhbir Singh Pawar - Greater Kailash
40. Shivani Chopra - Kalkaji
41. Shubam Sharma - Tughlakabad
42. Vijay Kumar - Trilokpuri
43. Laxam Rawat - Patparganj
44. Dr. Hari Dutt Sharma - Laxmi Nagar
45. Gurchaan Singh Raju - Vishwas Nagar
46. Dr. Ashok Walia - Krishna Nagar
47. Arvinder Singh Lovely - Gandhi Nagar
48. Dr. Narender Nath - Shahdara
49. Veer Singh Dhingan - Seemapuri
50. Vipin Sharma - Rohtas Nagar
51. Ch. Mateen Ahmed - Seelampur
52. Anveeksha Tripathi Jain - Babarpur
53. Dr. SP Singh - Gokalpur
54. Ali Mehndi - Mustafabad
