The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to declare candidates for its seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi after its Central Election Committee meeting scheduled for Thursday morning.
The list will be declared two days before candidates can file their nomination papers to contest the April 10 polls.
Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan told journalists on Wednesday that the list is likely to come out on March 13.
Dr. Vardhan had earlier said that “no single person will fight these elections, but the entire BJP machinery will fight together” to ensure a 7-0 win for the party.
In the 2013 Delhi Assembly elections, the BJP, along with its ally — the Shiromani Akali Dal — which had won one seat, managed 32 MLAs in the 70-member Assembly. However, they could not form the government after failing to achieving simple majority.
However, across the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the Capital, the BJP had gained the most votes in five of them — North-East Delhi (represented by former Delhi Congress chief J.P. Agarwal), South Delhi (represented by Ramesh Kumar), East Delhi (represented by former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit), North-West Delhi (represented by Union Minister Krishna Tirath) and West Delhi (represented by Mahabal Mishra). In the remaining two Lok Sabha seats of New Delhi and Chandni Chowk, the Aam Aadmi Party polled the maximum number of votes.
