Cong to hold ‘primaries’ for New Delhi, N-E Delhi seats
12 Feb 2014 11:39 PM GMT
The New Delhi and the north east Delhi Parliamentary seats, both held by Congress leaders, figure on the list of the 16 Lok Sabha constituencies where the selection of the party’s candidates will be carried out as per Rahul Gandhi’s ‘primaries’ experiment.
While AICC general secretary Ajay Maken represents the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat, former PCC chief Jai Parkash Agrawal is the MP from north east Delhi. The Congress leadership was keen to include at least two Parliamentary seats from Delhi in the ‘primaries’ as it felt that the exercise may be followed in other states as well if it bore the desired results here following the crushing defeat suffered by the party in the Assembly elections.
The above plan had suffered an initial hiccup when Union Minister Kapil Sibal and Krishna Tirath opposed the inclusion of their constituencies Chandni Chowk and north west Delhi on the ‘primaries’ list.
The two constituencies were later dropped but Maken had then offered his New Delhi seat for the holding of the exercise. However, subsequently, all seven Congress MPs from Delhi offered their seats for ‘primaries’ at a meeting to finalise seats on 3 February.
While AICC general secretary Ajay Maken represents the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat, former PCC chief Jai Parkash Agrawal is the MP from north east Delhi. The Congress leadership was keen to include at least two Parliamentary seats from Delhi in the ‘primaries’ as it felt that the exercise may be followed in other states as well if it bore the desired results here following the crushing defeat suffered by the party in the Assembly elections.
The above plan had suffered an initial hiccup when Union Minister Kapil Sibal and Krishna Tirath opposed the inclusion of their constituencies Chandni Chowk and north west Delhi on the ‘primaries’ list.
The two constituencies were later dropped but Maken had then offered his New Delhi seat for the holding of the exercise. However, subsequently, all seven Congress MPs from Delhi offered their seats for ‘primaries’ at a meeting to finalise seats on 3 February.
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