India, Feb. 1 -- Eight Aam Aadmi party (AAP) legislators, who were denied tickets to contest the upcoming Delhi assembly election, resigned from the Arvind Kejriwal-led party on Friday.

The eight MLAs who quit AAP are: Girish Soni (Madipur), Rohit Mehraulia from Trilokpura, Madan Lal (Kasturba Nagar), Rajesh Rishi (Janakpuri), Naresh Yadav (Mehrauli), Bhavna Gaur (Palam), Pawan Kumar Sharma (Adarsh Nagar) and BS Joon (Bijwasan).

The Kejriwal-led party is contesting all 70 seats in the national capital, which will go to polls on February 5 and the counting of votes will take place on February 8.

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