Kanhaiya Kumar Challenges Manoj Tiwari From North East Delhi Seat

North East Delhi, one of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in the national capital, has been loyal to the Bharatiya Janata Party for a decade now. Manoj Tiwari, who defeated Congress stalwart and former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit in 2019 with a margin of more than 3.5 lakh votes, will now battle it out with a young, fiery Congress leader, Kanhaiya Kumar, to retain the seat. Former JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, who shot to fame overnight with his "Azadi" speech after a police crackdown on campus in 2016, is one of the three candidates contesting on a Congress ticket in Delhi, where the grand old party has a seat-sharing deal with INDIA bloc partner Aam Aadmi Party.