The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday announced the names of 30 more candidates for the Haryana Assembly polls, fielding former wrestler Kavita Dalal from Julana against the Congress's Vinesh Phogat and the BJP's Yogesh Bairagi.
After releasing the names of 21 candidates in the afternoon, the party came out with another list in the evening containing the names of nine more nominees for the October 5 election.
Dalal, 37, is a former WWE participant and is also known as "Lady Khali." She has been fielded to take on Phogat, an Olympian.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Bairagi, a former commercial pilot, against Phogat in the Jat-dominated Julana Assembly segment.
Though Phogat belongs to Balali in Charkhi Dadri district, her parental village is Julana. Bakhta Khera village in Julana is her husband, Somvir Rathee's native village.
Dalal is a resident of Jind district.
Phogat, 30, who retired from wrestling after her shock end to the Paris Olympic campaign, is the country's first woman grappler to reach the Olympic final but was disqualified after failing to clear the weigh-in as she was overweight by about 100 grams in her 50-kg category.
Joga Singh, meanwhile, has been pitted against Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini from Ladwa, while Nisha Deshwal will fight the election from Safidon.
Sham Mehta is the AAP candidate from Sirsa while Nishant Anand is in the fray from Gurugram.
Raj Kaur Gill has been fielded by the AAP from the Ambala Cantonment seat while Sunil Bindal will contest the polls from Karnal.
Among the other candidates, Anil Ranga has been fielded from Narwana, Daljeet Singh from Tosham, Wasim Jaffar from Ferozepur Jhirkha and M L Gautam from Hodal.
The AAP announced its first list of 20 candidates for the Haryana polls on Monday as its seat-sharing talks with the Congress broke down.
So far, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party has announced 70 candidates for the polls.
The last date for filing nominations is September 12. The 90-member Haryana Assembly is slated to go to polls on October 5.
While the two parties have fought this year's Lok Sabha election together in Delhi, their alliance broke up in Punjab.
The Congress has given the AAP one seat in the general election in Haryana, which it had unsuccessfully contested.
In the 2019 Haryana Assembly polls, the AAP had fought 46 seats without winning a single seat.
