New Delhi, Dec 20 (Reporter) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday replaced its candidate from Mehrauli with Mahender Chaudhary after the sitting MLA, Naresh Yadav, refused to contest the upcoming 2025 election. This announcement was made after Yadav requested the party convener Arvind Kejriwal that he will not contest elections until he is “honourably acquitted”. Yadav was convicted by a Punjab court and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the 2016 Quran desecration case. After meeting Kejriwal, Yadav tweeted, “This party has given me a lot. Today, after meeting Arvind, I told him that until the court clears my case, I will not be able to do anything for the party. I will not contest elections until I am honourably acquitted. I am completely innocent, and the allegations levelled against me are politically motivated and false. That is why I have requested them to free me from contesting elections. I will continue to serve the people of Mehrauli and work like a common worker. I will try my best to make Kejriwal the CM again." The five-year term of the current Delhi Assembly will conclude in 2025, with elections for all 70 seats expected to take place in February. The seventh Assembly was formed on February 24, 2020, following AAP's landslide victory...////...