Less than a week after announcing Shoaib Iqbal as its candidate for Delhi’s Matia Mahal Assembly constituency in the upcoming polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is set to replace him with his son, Aaley Muhammad Iqbal, have indicated sources. India Today TV SATURDAY.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led party fielded Matia Mahal’s Shoaib Iqbal when it released its fourth list of candidates for the Delhi assembly elections on December 15.

Sources now claim that Shoaib Iqbal and his son and former Delhi deputy mayor Aaley met the former Delhi chief minister at his residence on Saturday to discuss the issue.

According to sources, Shoaib Iqbal, who is the incumbent MP since 2020, expressed his desire to enter national politics and urged AAP national in-charge Kejriwal to field his son Aaley from Matia Mahal in his place .

The party is expected to take a formal decision soon and agree to the preposition, sources said.

Elections to the 70-member Delhi Assembly are expected in January 2025. The AAP has announced that the party will contest alone in Delhi, just like its strategy in the Lok Sabha elections. Kejriwal’s party will rely on its governance track record and grassroots outreach to defend its turf, especially in a constituency as symbolic as New Delhi.