Delhi assembly polls: AAP’s 4th list out, Kejriwal to contest from New Delhi

In its fourth and final list for the 2025 Delhi assembly elections, the Aam Aadmi Party has fielded convenor Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi and chief minister Atishi from Kalkaji.

The list of 38 candidates features other key leaders of the party as well, including Saurabh Bharadwaj, Gopal Rai, Satyendra Kumar Jain and Durgesh Pathak.

Elections to the 70-member assembly of the national capital are due to be held in February 2025.

Ahead of the assembly polls, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has ruled out any possibility of a pre-poll alliance with the Congress. He said that his party will fight the election on its own strength.

Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj will contest the elections from Greater Kailash, while Gopal Rai has been fielded from Babarpur. The list shows Satyendra Kumar Jain to be fighting the battlefield from Shakur Basti and Durgesh Pathak from Rajinder Nagar.

Other candidates include Ramesh Pehalwan from Kasturba Naga, Raghuvinder Shokeen from Nangloi, Imran Hussain from Ballimaran, Jarnail Singh from Tilak Nagar, and Sanjeev Jha from Burari.

Earlier, speculations were rife over a possible alliance between AAP and the Congress, the two INDIA bloc partners. The rumours caught heat after Kejriwal attended an opposition group meeting over the alleged EVM and VVPAT machines tampering in the recently held Maharashtra assembly elections.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Kejriwal’s party and the Congress had contested in an alliance in the national capital as well as other parts of the country.

In the lead up to the high-octane assembly polls, there is also a high possibility of Kejriwal facing the sons of two former Delhi chief ministers.

While Congress has already fielded former CM Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit for the Delhi polls, the BJP is likely to field Parvesh Sahib Singh, son of ex-CM Sahib Singh Verma.

Parvesh told HT on Saturday that he has been asked to prepare to contest the elections from the New Delhi constituency, the seat which Kejriwal will also be fighting for.

AAP’s “10 years of misrule have brought Delhi to the brink of ruin”, and promised accessibility and responsiveness, vowing to be with residents “24 hours a day in your happiness and sorrow”, Parvesh added.