The 81-year-old Dikshit, who took over from Maken as the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief earlier this year, was last a Member of Parliament from 1984-89 from Kannauj
Elections:Closure a very long time of hypothesis over a conceivable tie-up with AAP, the Congress Monday declared the names of contender for all the seven Lok Sabha situates in Delhi, handling three-time boss pastor Sheila Dikshit from North-East Delhi, previous Union clergyman Ajay Maken from New Delhi and Olympic bronze medalist Vijender Singh from South Delhi.
The gathering additionally handled J P Agarwal from Chandni Chowk, Arvinder Singh Lovely from East Delhi, Rajesh Lilothia from North-West Delhi and Mahabal Mishra from West Delhi.
The 81-year-old Dikshit, who took over from Maken as the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee boss not long ago, was last a Member of Parliament from 1984-89 from Kannauj. She was the main pastor of Delhi for three terms somewhere in the range of 1998 and 2013.
She had challenged from East Delhi voting public in 1998, however lost. Diskhit had not entered appointive fight since she lost to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the 2013 Assembly surveys.
Dikshit will take on BJP’s sitting MP Manoj Tiwari and Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Dilip Pandey.
“We will start crusading soon by featuring accomplishments of Congress governments in Delhi just as at the Center,” Dikshit told journalists after her name was pronounced as a hopeful from North East Delhi.
Aditi Mehta 