Atishi Holds Roadshow; Kejriwal at ECI Office to Demand Candidate's Voter Registration

Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Atishi held a roadshow ahead of filing her nomination for the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections on Monday in Kalkaji. AAP leader Manish Sisodia also joined Atishi during the event.

Meanwhile, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal attacked the BJP and questioned the non-inclusion of Jats in the Central OBC list. He continued to raise allegations of voter registrations in his Delhi Assembly seat.

Kejriwal, AAP MP Sanjay Singh and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann reached the Election Commission of India office in Delhi to plead the case of Awadh Ojha, an AAP candidate, whose request to get his voter's registration transferred from Uttar Pradesh to Delhi has not been acceded to yet. A contestant to a state legislative assembly ought to be a voter in that state.

Awadh Ojha is an AAP candidate fielded from the Patparganj constituency. He was a voter from Greater Noida and had sought his registration to be transferred to Delhi. AAP claims that denying Ojha's request this is a move by the BJP to get him disqualified from contesting the elections.

The AAP and BJP continued to trade allegations over housing for the poor. BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal accused Kejriwal of not fulfilling the promise to provide housing for slum dwellers in the last decade.

Arvinder Singh Lovely, a former minister in Sheila Dikshit's Congress government in Delhi, targeted Congress over supporting the AAP in the 2024 Parliamentary polls. He said he was unhappy with the party leadership. He was the Congress' Delhi state unit head, who had resigned after the 2024 elections. He is now BJP's candidate from East Dehi's Gandhinagar constituency.