Former Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo Arvind Kejriwal rubbished the claims by the BJP stating that he will fight from only one seat which is New Delhi. The BJP had claimed that Kejriwal will contest from two seats out of fear of losing New Delhi.
"I am contesting one seat only," said Kejriwal at a press conference when asked about BJP's claims that he was contesting from another seat for fear of loss in New Delhi.
Kejriwal said there is a direct contest between AAP and BJP in Delhi. Kejriwal is locked in a triangular contest against the sons of two former chief ministers of Delhi.
Former Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma's son Parvesh Verma has been fielded by BJP, Congress has given ticket to Sandeep Dikshit, son of former CM Sheila Dikshit who served for three terms.
After Bharatiya Janata Party's IT cell head Amit Malviya said the AAP chief would lose, Delhi Chief Minister and three-time sitting MLA from New Delhi since 2013 issued a clarification today. Malviya had earlier said that Kejriwal is making "baseless allegations" about voter lists in his constituency and is talking about contesting from two seats.
His party leaders will meet the Election Commission tomorrow evening to discuss all the issues, including deletion of voters' names, said AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, while accusing the BJP of deleting thousands of AAP supporters' names from the electoral roll.
It thanked INDIA bloc members, including Samajwadi Party, Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT), for extending their support to AAP. Meanwhile, Congress, which is also part of the INDIA bloc, is going solo in the Delhi polls.
The 70-member Delhi Assembly will go to polls on February 5, and the results will be out on February 8.
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