States should seal borders and encourage migrant labourers to stay where they are by providing food and wages, the Centre said today in an attempt to ensure the countrywide lockdown that had gone off-track over the last few days.  Since Prime...

A five-time MLA from Seelampur, Ahmad is a well-known face in the constituency. He’d won the first term on a Janata Dal ticket, the second as an independent and the next three terms with the Congress. Mateen Ahmad is a graduate from Meerut University...

Contesting her first assembly polls, Chopra is the daughter of three-time former MLA from Kalkaji Subhash Chopra who is currently also the chief of the Delhi Congress committee. As the 40-year-old largely banks on her father’s legacy who was the MLA 1998 to 2013, AAP’s candidate from this constituency is Atishi while the BJP candidate is Dharamvir Singh.

Former Rajya Sabha member and a four-time MLA, Hashmi had contested his first assembly elections with the Janata Dal but has been with the Congress since 1998. He was the MLA from Okhla from 1993 to 2009 when he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. His second term to the Rajya Sabha ended in 2018. Back into electoral politics, he takes on AAP’s incumbent MLA Amanatullah Khan and BJP’s Brahma Singh.

A four-time MLA – thrice from the now merged Geeta Colony constituency and once from Lakshmi Nagar – Walia is a senior leader in the Delhi Congress. The 71-year-old is a physician and had served as minister for health and urban development from 2008...

Having first been elected to the Delhi Assembly at the age of 29 in 1998, Arvinder Singh Lovely is a four-time MLA. He’d won the next three elections as well and was in office till 2015. He’d joined politics as a student when he was studying...

A former MLA from Deoli when he won the 2008 elections, Arvinder Singh is the son of former Home Minister Buta Singh. 55-year-old Arvinder had won the 2008 elections with the Congress but had switched to the BJP after his father was denied a...

The incumbent MLA from Dwarka, Shastri had won the 2015 polls with the AAP by close to 40,000 votes. He is now contesting the 2020 elections on a Congress ticket after having been denied one by the Aam Aadmi Party. Grandson of Lal Bahadur Shastri,...

Radhika Khera, who started her political journey as member of the the Youth Congress, is contesting her first assembly elections. She is currently the national media coordinator of the Congress and the former general secretary of the party’s youth...

Alka Lamba was earlier with the Aam Aadmi Party and had won the 2015 elections from Chandni Chowk by a margin of over 18,000 votes. Having joined politics at the age of 19 when she became a member of the National Student’s Union of India, the student...