Goemkarponn Desk
PANAJI: The BJP’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting will be held on Saturday evening to discuss party candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
Chaired by party’s national president J. P. Nadda, the meeting will be held in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during which next list of candidates for the polls will be finalized.
The meeting may finalise 150 candidates from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa and Andhra Pradesh.
Neither the Congress nor the BJP named a candidate for the South Goa parliamentary seat, nor did their names appear on their third or fourth lists. Nor has the Congress announced a candidate for North Goa.
The party’s nominee for the South Goa seat will be revealed within the next two days, according to statements made last week by both BJP State President Sadanand Shet Tanavade Tanavade and Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.
Tanavade had said that discussions about the gender of the candidate for the South Goa seat were still going on in New Delhi.
The BJP, in its first list, has announced names of 195 candidates, 72 in second list, nine in third list and 15 in fourth list.
The party has announced 291 candidates so far. However two of them have expressed their inability to contest polls.
Polling for Lok Sabha elections will be conducted in seven phases, from April 19 to June 1.
Counting of votes will be taken up on June 4.
