The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday fielded four of its sitting MPs from Delhi for the Lok Sabha election scheduled for May 12.
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan, Delhi BJP chief and one of the party’s star campaigners Manoj Tiwari, Pravesh Verma and Ramesh Bidhuri have been fielded from the Chandni Chowk, North-East, West and South Delhi constituencies, respectively.
Waiting for tie-up news
Party insiders claimed that the names of the remaining candidates — to be fielded from the North-West, East and New Delhi seats, where the AAP and the Congress may contest the Lok Sabha poll together — were deliberately withheld as the BJP is awaiting an official announcement in this regard.
“We will field sitting MPs on the remaining three seats if there is no AAP-Congress alliance; if the alliance does go through, fresh faces are more than likely to be fielded,” a party leader added.