new delhi days after the election commission of india announced the bypoll on the rajendra nagar assembly seat the three major political players aam aadmi party bharatiya janata party and congress have begun hectic parleys on candidate selection and poll strategywhile aap which won the last two elections here by a margin of over 20000 votes has almost decided on the name of mcd incharge durgesh pathak the two opposition parties too have identified a few names and may announce the candidate soonthe formal announcement of pathaks name is likely to happen in a day or two he had unsuccessfully contested the 2020 assembly election from karawal nagar in the run up to the mcd polls which were however postponed pathak led the aaps tirade against bjpthe rajendra nagar seat fell vacant earlier this year after aap sent raghav chadha to rajya sabha from punjab senior party leaders said they started the preparation for the bypoll immediately after the seat fell vacant and began connecting with the electorate the party appointed pathak as the election incharge and held a constituency level conference earlier this monthwhile pathak could not be contacted a party functionary said regular meetings are being held in the constituency with various groups of residentsrajendra nagar constituency is an interesting mix of urban areas villages and slum clusters the constituency is dominated by punjabi and baniyas with some pockets of gujjar and sc voters toobjp which has won four of the seven elections on this seat held a meeting of senior functionaries of the delhi unit on friday to finalise the poll strategy and shortlist the possible candidates we finalised today the creative that will be used on the hoardings and the content against aap a senior party functionary saidthe partys national secretary rp singh who contested the last three elections won in 2013 and lost in 2015 and 2020 is among the shortlisted candidates apart from delhi bjp president adesh gupta vicepresident rajan tewari and former general secretary and excouncillor rajesh bhatia sources saidthe delhi congress also held a few meetings to decide on the election strategy and possible candidates former delhi minister ramakant goswami who won the 2008 election from rajendra nagar was also presentwe discussed various issues that we will raise during the polls and finalised their content the candidates were also discussed we hope to announce the name within 23 days said a party functionarybrahm yadav former delhi congress general secretary sandeep tanwar who contested the 2015 poll from delhi cantonment district president krishna kapoor former district president asha gandhi and former municipal councillor prem lata are some names in discussion said a party functionary