{"id":318998,"date":"2020-01-19T03:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T03:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318998"},"modified":"2020-01-19T03:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T03:35:22","slug":"delhi-assembly-polls-congress-releases-first-list-of-54-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-assembly-polls-congress-releases-first-list-of-54-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Assembly Polls: Congress releases first list of 54 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-306862 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Congress-619x420.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/>The Congress on Saturday evening released its first list of 54 candidates for upcoming Delhi Assembly polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Of the 54 nominees, 33 will make their debut in the polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress, like the BJP has not decided its candidate against Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party has fielded Lakshman Rawat against Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia from Patparganj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Alka Lamba, who switched over to the Congress, has been fielded from Chandni Chowk constituency.<\/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 Congress on Saturday evening released its first list of 54 candidates for upcoming Delhi Assembly polls. Of the 54 nominees, 33 will make their debut in the polls. The Congress, like the BJP has not decided its candidate against Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat. The party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[236,12401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318998"}],"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=318998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318999,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318998\/revisions\/318999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}