Lok Sabha Polls 2024 : Akshay Kumar from Chandni Chowk? BJP gets rolling in Delhi after AAP-Congress tie up, says report

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started discussions on Delhi's seven Lok Sabha seats as the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress decided to contest these seats together in an alliance

The , which won all seven parliamentary seats of the national capital in 2014 and 2019, is discussing the choice of candidates for the seven seats. The brainstorming has been revolving around whether or not to repeat the MPs

While no names have been finalised yet, sources said some of the sitting members of parliament might not get repeated and instead new names will come up. And among the new names, according to , is actor . While there has been no official word yet, the report says, Kumar might be asked to contest from Chandni Chowk seat in Delhi. BJP leader and former Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan Singh won the seat twice in 2014 and 2019. The seat was won by former Congress leader and Union Minister Kapil Sibal in 2004 and 2009.

"The AAP-Congress alliance will certainly impact the party’s approach to candidate selection in Delhi since the contest is now bipolar and not tri-corner as it was in 2019," a recent in Indian Express said quoting a source.

It is worth mentioning here that the Chandni Chowk to China actor Akshay Kumar had spent a large part of his childhood in Delhi, before moving to Mumbai. In a recent interview, .

“We were 24 people living in the same house in Chandni Chowk. We all would sleep in the same room. In the morning, when we woke up for exercise, everyone would jump over each other to get out," he told news agency ANI.

Kumar had faced criticism for making movies that silently in support Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government's projects, a charge that the actor has denied saying he made movies o