{"id":318972,"date":"2020-01-17T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T11:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318972"},"modified":"2020-01-17T11:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T11:45:22","slug":"delhi-assembly-polls-bjp-releases-first-list-of-57-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-assembly-polls-bjp-releases-first-list-of-57-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Assembly polls: BJP releases first list of 57 candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318973 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/manoj-tiwari.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"697\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/manoj-tiwari.jpg 697w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/manoj-tiwari-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/manoj-tiwari-696x441.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/manoj-tiwari-662x420.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari made the announcement at a press briefing in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Out of the 57 names, 11 are from Scheduled Caste (SC) community, while four are women. The remaining 13 candidates will be announced later, Tiwari said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Among the prominent names in the list of candidates are Vijender Gupta from Rohini, Kapil Mishra from Model Town<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress is also likely to release its list of candidates later in the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday released the list of 70 candidates for\u00a0Delhi Assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will contest again from New Delhi and his Deputy Manish Sisodia to contest from Patparganj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Voting for the 70 Assembly seats in Delhi will take place on February 8 and the counting of votes is scheduled on February 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday released its first list of 57 candidates for the upcoming Delhi Assembly Elections. Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari made the announcement at a press briefing in New Delhi. Out of the 57 names, 11 are from Scheduled Caste (SC) community, while four are women. The remaining 13 candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[453,12401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318974,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318972\/revisions\/318974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}