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Journalist who exposed saffron leaders’ role in riots among AAP candidates

March 10, 2014

New Delhi, Mar 10: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday released the fourth list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

Among the 60 candidates announced today is journalist Ashish Khaitan from New Delhi constituency.ashish_kethan

Former Tehelka journalist Khaitan is the founder of news portal gulail.com that had levelled charges against Narendra Modi over alleged illegal surveillance of woman by the Gujarat Police.

Khetan is a former Tehelka journalist and also the founder of news portal gulail.com, which had accused BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi over alleged illegal surveillance of woman by the Gujarat Police.

Khetan had also exposed Babu Bajrangi (Operation Kalank) in a sting operation during which the extremist saffron leader had spoken about how Modi had saved him after 2002 Gujarat riots.

The other name announced for Delhi was of Col Devendra Sehrawat, he will contest from South Delhi.

Another prominent name in the list is that of satirist turned politician Bhagwant Mann. He will contest from Sangrur in Punjab. Mann was earlier with Manpreet Badal's Peoples Party of Punjab.

The fourth list has names of two candidates from Delhi, four from Haryana, 13 from Karnataka, three from Punjab and 38 from UP.

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