AAP fields Shazia Ilmi from Ghziabad
16 March 2014 6:30 AM IST
A controversy had erupted recently after Ilmi said she won’t contest against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi from Rae Bareli as she was unknown in the area. Ilmi had made it clear to the party that she wanted to contest from Delhi, either from New Delhi or South Delhi parliamentary seat. In the recently-concluded Delhi assembly election, Ilmi had contested from R K Puram assembly seat but lost to BJP’s Anil Sharma by a slight margin of around 300 votes. Although, the seat is not in Delhi but Ilmi can now be relieved as Ghaziabad is the center of AAP activities.
The party has it’s head office in Kaushambi. Currently, the seat is represented by national BJP president Rajnath Singh and the Congress had fielded Raj Babbar from here.
Sori, who will enter the electoral fray from Bastar, was granted bail by the Supreme Court last month in a case lodged against her for allegedly receiving money from Essar Group on behalf of Maoists.
The 36-year-old Sori and her activist-nephew Kodopi (25) were arrested on charges of acting as Maoist conduits who had allegedly received protection money for the rebels from Essar Group in Chhattisgarh.
Former IPS officer Kanchan Choudhary Bhattacharya, first woman DGP of any state, will contest from Haridwar in Uttarkhand on AAP ticket. The list includes seats in 13 states and three union territories.
The party declared candidates for north eastern states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Manipur – one each for the four states, two each in Kerala and Goa, one each in Union Territories of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Andaman and Nicobar islands, three each in Uttarakhand and Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh (10), Odisha (10), Rajasthan (5), Madhya Pradesh (7), Maharashtra (6). With this list, the total number of candidates declared by the AAP so far has gone up to 242.
The party has it’s head office in Kaushambi. Currently, the seat is represented by national BJP president Rajnath Singh and the Congress had fielded Raj Babbar from here.
Sori, who will enter the electoral fray from Bastar, was granted bail by the Supreme Court last month in a case lodged against her for allegedly receiving money from Essar Group on behalf of Maoists.
The 36-year-old Sori and her activist-nephew Kodopi (25) were arrested on charges of acting as Maoist conduits who had allegedly received protection money for the rebels from Essar Group in Chhattisgarh.
Former IPS officer Kanchan Choudhary Bhattacharya, first woman DGP of any state, will contest from Haridwar in Uttarkhand on AAP ticket. The list includes seats in 13 states and three union territories.
The party declared candidates for north eastern states of Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Manipur – one each for the four states, two each in Kerala and Goa, one each in Union Territories of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Andaman and Nicobar islands, three each in Uttarakhand and Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh (10), Odisha (10), Rajasthan (5), Madhya Pradesh (7), Maharashtra (6). With this list, the total number of candidates declared by the AAP so far has gone up to 242.
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