LS polls: BJP fields Gautham Gambhir from East Delhi

Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to field former cricketer Gautham Gambhir from East Delhi constituency. BJP had earlier released their 23rd list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.

New Delhi:The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday announced that cricketer-turned-politicians Gautham Gambhir would contest the ongoing polls from East Delhi Lok Sabha seat while sitting MP Meenakshi Lekhi will contest the election from New Delhi seat.

Gambhir is pitted against Congress's Arvinder Singh Lovely and Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Atishi. Lekhi, on other hand, is up against AAP's Brajesh Goyal and Congress Ajay Maken.

A Padma Shri awardee, Gambhir joined the BJP on March 22 in the presence of Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, BJP's Mahesh Giri had defeated AAP's Rajmohan Gandhi by a margin of 1,90,463 votes from East Delhi seat.

Meanwhile, Lekhi, a sitting MP from New Delhi, had defeated Congress Ajay Maken by a margin of 1,62,708 votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the same constituency.

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