AAP (Aam Aadmi Party) has announced its fourth candidates list for Lok Sabha Elections 2014 on Monday. It has issued the list for 61 Lok sabha seats. The list includes the name of Former Infosys CFO, investigative journalist and a Shia Maulavee.
It has figured 2 candidates from Delhi, 13 from Karnataka, 3 from Punjab, 39 from Uttar Pradesh and 4 from Haryana.
AAP is fielding V Balakrishnan, former CFO of Infosys, from Bangalore Central. While Congress has fielded Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder from Bangalore South in Lok Sabha Elections. Journalist Ashish Khetan will contest from New Delhi. He is the founder of gulail.com news portal and former journalist of Tehelka magazine.
Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Rushaid is fielding from Amroha district of U.P. He is the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s member. Col. (retd.) Devendra Sehrwat will contest from South Delhi. He fought on the issue of "causes and compensation" for farmers.
Mahatma Gandhi's grandson Rajmohan Gandhi will contest from East Delhi and Anand Kumar (JNU professor) is fielding from North-East Delhi
The candidates list has figured the name of Uttar Pradesh candidates including Archana Gupta, who will contest from Jhansi, Akhand Pratap Singh, who is contesting from Kushi Nagar, Shimla Sree is contesting from Phulpur and Himanshu Singh from Meerut.
It also added the names of candidates for Haryana constituency which includes Purshottam Dagar, S.P. Singh and Paramjeet, who will contest from Faridabad, Ambala and Karnal respectively.
Congress and BJP had already released their Candidates List for Lok Sabha Election 2014. Meanwhile, MNS also fielded their candidates but they are supporting BJP in Mumbai. Lalu's Rashtriya Janta Dal has also declared its Candidates list which made some of RJD members to move into BJP.