{"id":319021,"date":"2020-01-20T04:29:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T04:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319021"},"modified":"2020-01-20T04:29:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T04:29:54","slug":"cm-arvind-kejriwal-to-file-nomination-for-delhi-assembly-polls-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cm-arvind-kejriwal-to-file-nomination-for-delhi-assembly-polls-today\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Arvind Kejriwal to file nomination for Delhi Assembly polls today"},"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-299841 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/arvind-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/arvind-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/arvind-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/arvind-3-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/arvind-3-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/arvind-3-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal will file his nomination on Monday for the New Delhi assembly seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I will file my nomination tomorrow. I will feel very good if you come to bless me,&#8221; Kejriwal had said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Before filing his nomination, Kejriwal will hold a roadshow after seeking the blessings of Bhagwan Valmiki at the historic Valmiki Mandir, sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal on Sunday released a \u2018guarantee card\u2019 listing 10 promises, including 24 hours drinking water supply to every household, free public travel for students. The card has those points the party promised to do in the next five years if elected again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The \u201cguarantee card\u201d also promises to continue the scheme for free electricity up to 200 units and deployment of \u201cmohalla marshals\u201d for women\u2019s safety in Delhi over the next five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Aam Aadmi Party had won 67 of 70 seats in 2015 Delhi assembly elections. The party has already named candidates for all 70 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling for the 70-member Delhi Assembly will be held on February 8 and the counting of votes is scheduled on February 11.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal will file his nomination on Monday for the New Delhi assembly seat. &#8220;I will file my nomination tomorrow. I will feel very good if you come to bless me,&#8221; Kejriwal had said in a tweet. Before filing his nomination, Kejriwal will hold a roadshow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[304,306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319021"}],"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=319021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319022,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319021\/revisions\/319022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}