The Centre-ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in the national capital. In the 2025 Delhi Assembly elections, the BJP is hoping to make a comeback after more than 25 years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party will be competing against the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Indian National Congress (INC) in the Union Territory.
First list of BJP candidate for Delhi election 2025
| A candidate | Assembly Chair |
| Raj Kumar Bhatia |
4 – ADARSH NAGAR |
| Khushiram Chunar |
48 – AMBEDKAR NAGAR |
| Narayan Dutt Sharma |
53 – BADARPUR |
| Deepak Chaudhary |
5 – THEY EAT |
| Kailash Gehlot |
36 – BIJWASAN |
| Kartar Singh Tanwar |
46 – CHHATARPUR |
| Dear Sardar Arvinder Singh |
61 – GANDHI NAGAR |
| Ajay Mahawar |
66 – HONDA |
| Ashish Sood |
30 – JANAKPURI |
| Sardar Tarvinder Singh Marwah |
41 – JANGPURA |
| Ramesh Bidhuri |
51 – KALKAJI |
| Dushyant Kumar Gautam |
23 – KAROL BAGH |
| Dr. Anil Goel |
60 – KRISHNA NAGAR |
| Satish Upadhyay |
43 – MALVIYA NAGAR |
| Rajkumar Chauhan |
12 – MANGOL PURI (SC) |
| Gajainder Yadav |
45 – MEHRAULI |
| Ashok Goel |
18 – MODEL CITY |
| Manoj Shokeen |
11 – NANGLOI JAT |
| Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma |
40 – NEW DELHI |
| Raaj Kumar Anand |
24 – PATEL NAGAR |
| Ravinder Singh Negi |
57 – PATPARGANJ |
| Anil Sharma |
44 – RK PURAM |
| Manjinder Singh Sisra |
27 – RAJOURI GARDEN |
| Kulwant Rana |
6 – RITHALA |
| Vijender Gupta |
13 – ROHINI |
| Jitendra Mahajan |
64 – ROHTAS NAGAR |
| Sushri Kumari Rinku |
63 – SEEMA PURI |
| Rekha Gupta |
14 – SHALIMAR BAGH |
| Om Prakash Sharma |
59 – VISHWAS NAGAR |
The BJP’s initial list of candidates includes 29 candidates, including former MP Parvesh Verma (son of former Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma) and former MP Ramesh Bidhuri. While Verma will be pitted against former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi, Bidhuri will be pitted against Chief Minister Atishi from Kalkaji.
Other prominent figures in the BJP’s list of candidates include Dushyant Kumar Gautam, Ashish Sood, Arvinder Singh Lovely, Kailash Gahlot and Satish Upadhyay.
Here is the list of remaining seats (for which BJP will announce elections):
- 1 – NERELA
- 2 – LIBRARY
- 3 – TIMARPUR
- 7 – THEY WERE
- 8 – MUNDKA
- 9 – KIRARI
- 10 – SULTANPUR MAJRA
- 15 – SHAKUR BASTI
- 16 – TRI NAGAR
- 17 – WAZIRPUR
- 19 – SADAR BAZAR
- 20 – CHANDNI CHOWK
- 21 – MATIA MAHAL
- 22 – BALLIMARAN
- 25 – MOTI NAGAR
- 26 – MADIPUR
- 28 – HARI NAGAR
- 29 – TILAK NAGAR
- 31 – VIKASPURI
- 32 – UTTAM NAGAR
- 33 – DWARKA
- 34 – MATIALA
- 35 – NAJAFGARH
- 37 – PALAM
- 38 – DELHI CANTT
- 39 – RAJINDER NAGAR
- 42 – KASTURBA NAGAR
- 47 – DEOLI
- 49 – SANGAM VIHAR
- 50 – KAILASH THE GREAT
- 52 – TUGHLAKABAD
- 54 – OKHLA
- 55 – TRILOKPURI
- 56 – CONDLI
- 58 – LAXMI NAGAR
- 62 – SHAHDARA
- 65 – SEELAMPUR
- 67 – BABARPUR
- 68 – GOKALPUR
- 69 – MUSTAFABAD
- 70 – KARAWAL NAGAR
Fighting for 70 Delhi Assembly seats
The Delhi Legislative Assembly has 70 seats.
In the 2020 Assembly Elections in the national capital, the Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party won a clear majority with 62 out of 70 seats.