The poll committee members of the Chhattisgarh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) met at the party’s State headquarters ‘Ekatm Parisar’ here on Monday to finalise names of the lok Sabha candidates.
The meeting which was attended by Chief Minister Raman Singh besides all the senior leaders discussed about each name proposed in the list for the 11 lok Sabha seats, party sources here informed.
The leaders, it was learnt, also took survey reports of the political climate currently existing in all the 11 lok Sabha constituencies. It was also learnt that the leaders remained unanimous on repeating six sitting MPs mainly Ramesh Bais from Raipur, Saroj Pandey from Durg, Vishnudev Sai from Raigarh, Madhusudan Yadav from Rajnandgaon and Kamla Devi Patle from Janjgir-Champa and Dinesh Kashyap from Bastar lok Sabha seats.
There was also talk of fielding one or two new faces but overall, most sitting MPs are likely to get repeated, sources informed. The prospective candidates who were present at the State BJP headquarters later individually met senior leaders to have discussions regarding poll preparations being made in their respective regions.