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Congress renominates 5 sitting MPs in Delhi

New Delhi: Congress today renominated five sitting MPs—Kapil Sibal, Sandeep Dikshit, J P Agarwal, Krishna Tirath and Ajay Maken—for the Lok Sabha polls in the national capital while deferring its decision on the remaining two

PTI Published : Mar 18, 2014 23:26 IST, Updated : Mar 18, 2014 23:57 IST


BJP has fielded party spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi while AAP has given ticket to another journalist-turned-politician Ashish Khetan, founder of investigative website Gulail.com.  

In East Delhi constituency, Dikshit, son of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit will try to retain the seat for the second term.

He will face challenge from AAP's Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and BJP's Mahesh Girri, who has been associated with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's Art of Living.  

The Aam Aadmi Party had won five out of 10 assembly seats which come under the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat. Congress and BJP had bagged two seats each.

Congress has fielded Tirath from Northwest constituency which she had won in 2004 and 2009 Lok Sabha polls.  

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