It seems Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has mistakenly named Suresh Bhardwaj, a BJP member, as its party candidate from Wazirpur constituency. Bhardwaj claimed that he was unaware of his candidature till he saw the news reports on Friday, a newspaper said.

Following the media reports, Bhardwaj sought to clarify his position and said "he had never met any senior AAP leaders" and was very much with the BJP.

The goof-up happened less than 24 hours after the party announced the names of the party candidates.

Expressing "surprise" over having been fielded by the AAP, the former BJP councillor from the area "returned" to the BJP pledging full support, The Indian Express reported.

AAP, however, has claimed that Bhardwaj had been in touch with AAP leaders. AAP had announced its final list of Delhi assembly candidates on Friday.

"AAP volunteers approached me on Friday afternoon, hours before the list was formalised offering me a ticket from Wazirpur. There was no official communication from the party and I did not take the matter seriously," the report quoted Bhardwaj as saying.

After the embarrassment, AAP announced that Rajesh Gupta will be its new candidate from Wazirpur. "Following the announcement, we received a series of complaints from our local volunteers regarding the functioning of a factory Bhardwaj owns. He had not disclosed information regarding this to the party even when Sanjay Singh asked him about it yesterday afternoon," said a AAP leader, explaining why Bhardwaj was replaced.

Bhardwaj's daughter-in-law is a sitting BJP councillor from Ashok Vihar and his son is the BJP district vice-president in Keshavpuram, the report added.