BJP’s Central Election Committee has sent the names of 35 sitting MLAs for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls to the Central Parliamentary Board for finalisation.
“Winnability has been the main criteria,” said a senior BJP leader. The names of all BJP candidates for 68 assembly seats will be announced late Tuesday night.
A day before, Himachal BJP leaders had held a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Jairam Thakur and attended by Union I&B Minister Anurag Thakur, and scrutinized the candidates who could “ensure an outright victory “ in their respective seats.
Presently, the BJP has 43 MLAs in the Himachal assembly. A decision on repeating MLAs in 35 seats has already been taken on account of the party’s internal survey which had calculated the anti-incumbency factor as also winnablity in each of the assembly segments of four parliamentary constituencies of the hill state.
For the remaining 33 seats, the BJP panel has been considering more than two names before zeroing-in-on the final candidate,