New Delhi, Jan 9 (TIWN) The Congress, which was reduced to nil in the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections, will release its first list of candidates for the 2018 polls on Sunday after the meeting of the party's Chief Election Committee (CEC), sources said on Thursday.

Delhi Congress in-charge PC Chacko on Thursday evening said the party’s chief election committee had decided on candidates from Chandni Chowk, Northeast Delhi, Northwest Delhi and New Delhi constituencies.

In a meeting of the committee, convened by Congress president Rahul Gandhi, it was decided that senior leader Kapil Sibal will represent the party from Chandni Chowk, Ajay Maken from New Delhi, JP Agarwal from Northeast Delhi and Raj Kumar Chauhan from Northwest Delhi .

Apart from Chauhan, who is a former legislator from Mangolpuri in Northwest Delhi, all other candidates have formerly been MPs from their respective constituencies.

In 2014, Sibal, Maken and Agarwal had lost their seats to BJP candidates.

“The names have been finalised for four seats. The names for the remaining three seats are yet to be decided. That will be done in a day or two,” Chacko said.

He said candidates will son be named in the remaining three seats —South, West, and East Delhi.