New Delhi [India], April 9 (ANI): Senior Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) leaders arrived on the occasion headquarters within the nationwide capital on Sunday to attend the Central Election Committee (CEC) assembly for the Karnataka Meeting elections scheduled to be held subsequent month.
Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP Chief JP Nadda, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, and Union Minister Pralhad Joshi got here to attend the assembly.
Earlier, on Saturday, Shah held a gathering at BJP president Nadda’s residence within the nationwide capital to debate and finalise the checklist of candidates for the Could 10 polls.
Karnataka BJP president Nalinkumar Kateel, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa, Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and different leaders have been additionally current at Nadda’s residence.
Social gathering sources mentioned the core group of the BJP in Karnataka have shortlisted three names for every Meeting seat, which will likely be positioned earlier than the Central Election Committee. The occasion’s central management will brainstorm these names earlier than locking the candidates.
On April 4, the BJP’s core group in Karnataka drew up a shortlist of candidates in a gathering with the occasion’s nationwide common secretary Arun Singh, state election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan, co-in-charge Mansukh Mandaviya, Central Election Committee member Annamalai, former chief minister Yediyurappa and his successor and incumbent Basavaraj Bommai.
The BJP emerged as the most important single occasion within the final Meeting elections, profitable 104 seats, with the Congress profitable 80 and the JD(S) 37 seats.
Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar had on March 29 this yr introduced the ballot schedule for the election of the 224-member Karnataka Legislative Meeting. The counting of votes for the Meeting will likely be held on Could 13.
The time period of the present Karnataka Legislative Meeting is about to finish on Could 24, this yr.
Earlier, chatting with reporters, Bommai mentioned a dialogue over the number of candidates for 224 Meeting constituencies will happen on the core committee assembly of the BJP.
“In the present day, an essential assembly is to be held underneath the steerage of BJP nationwide president JP Nadda. Throughout this assembly, a dialogue over candidate choice for 224 meeting seats will likely be completed. And tomorrow Parliamentary board of the occasion can also be assembly,” the Karnataka chief minister mentioned.
BJP is but to declare its candidates for the polls.
Former Karnataka chief minister and BJP chief BS Yediyurappa on Friday mentioned the occasion would quickly finalise the checklist of candidates for the Meeting elections.
The one southern state the place the BJP is in energy, Karnataka is presently witnessing a high-pitched ballot marketing campaign because the saffron occasion bids to retain their maintain of the state.
A high BJP supply mentioned the ruling occasion has deliberate to carpet-bomb the state with campaigns that includes heavyweights.
“The names of 40-star campaigners have additionally been determined for Karnataka. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Goa CM Pramod Sawant, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, and a number of other Union ministers like Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman have been included within the checklist. All have been requested to present two weeks’ time within the poll-bound state,” he added. (ANI)
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