Delhi Assembly polls: BJP releases second list of candidates, fields Kapil Mishra from Karawal Nagar

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday declared its second list of 29 candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in Delhi.

With this, the number of candidates announced by the Hindutva party for the 70-member Assembly reached 58.

The Assembly elections in Delhi will take place in a single phase on February 5 and the counting of votes will take place on February 8.

In the second list, the BJP replaced its incumbent MLA from Karawal Nagar, Mohan Singh Bisht, with Kapil Mishra, a former minister in the Aam Aadmi Party government.

Mishra was elected from Karawal Nagar on an Aam Aadmi Party in 2015. He joined the BJP in August 2019. However, he was not given any organisational responsibility in the party until August 2023 when he was appointed as a vice president of the party’s Delhi unit.

Mishra had been under fire for his speech on February 23, 2020, when he amassed a crowd and gave an ultimatum to the police to clear the streets of protesters who were demonstrating against the Citizenship Act amendments in Jafrabad.

The BJP leader – in the presence of a senior police officer – had demanded that the police evict the protestors and threatened violence if they failed to do so within three days.

In July 2020, a 10-member fact-finding committee of the…

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