Who will be the BJP's answer to Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal?

After senior Delhi BJP leaders including Vijay Jolly and V K Malhotra refused to contest against chief minister Sheila Dikshit and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal from  New Delhi constituency, one of the younger faces in the party is slated to take up the task. BJP has short-listed the names of former Delhi University Students’ Union president Nupur Sharma, state executive council member Sunil Yadav and district vice president Rajeev Rana for party ticket from New Delhi seat. Yadav confirmed the development to Firstpost. Being a poorvanchali (hailing from Eastern UP or Bihar), Yadav, 38, said, he has an edge over other contenders as the constituency has a significant number of migrants from that region. “I am not considered an outsider. People relate to me. I have been mobilising voters against Sheila Dikshit for almost a decade now,” he said. [caption id=“attachment_1210873” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Arvind Kejriwal and Sheila Dikshit. Agencies[/caption] Yadav is a qualified advocate. He has been a district level president of BJP’s Yuva Morcha (youth wing) and the youngest secretary of the party’s state unit. Another contender, Rajeev Rana, has the backing of Shahnawaz Hussain, former cabinet minister and BJP MP from Bhagalpur. Rana started as a block president. Like Yadav, he is also from Poorvanchal region. “I will accept whatever task the party will give me,” he told Firstpost. However Nupur Sharma, 30, is most likely to get the ticket from New Delhi seat. Nitin Gadkari, BJP’s election in- charge for Delhi, has thrown his weight behind Sharma, after seniors appeared reluctant to accept the offer, said a source. Sharma who did her Masters in Law from London School of Economics is the national media co- incharge of BJP Yuva Morcha. In 2008, she fought and won the students’ union election on ABVP ticket. The BJP’s central election committee is expected to finalise the list of candidates at a meeting on Tuesday, said Harshvardhan, the party’s chief ministerial candidate and sitting MLA from Krishna Nagar seat. So far, the AAP has been projecting the contest in New Delhi seat as a two way fight between its leader Arvind Kejriwal and three-time chief minister, Dikshit. Formed after delimitation of assembly seats, the New Delhi constituency is considered a Congress bastion. In 2008, Dikshit defeated BJP leader Vijay Jolly by 13,000 plus votes to retain power for the third consecutive term. A substantial chunk of the voters in this seat are  government servants.