The Bharatiya Janata Party’s State Election Committee met for the second time in last two days to choose its candidates for the November-December Assembly elections, but stopped short of announcing their names.
Chief Minister Raghubar Das, Union Tribal Affairs minister Arjun Munda, State BJP president Laxman Gilua, State BJP election in-charge Om Prakash Mathur, election co in-charge Nand Kishore Yadav, State BJP organizational secretary Dharampal Singh and other senior leaders of the party sat for over five hours to discuss the names of possible candidates in 81 Assembly segments going to poll in five phase. State BJP general secretary Deepak Prakash said, “The senior leaders discussed on the names of probable candidates for all 81 Assembly constituencies. Names of candidates who had submitted their bio-data to State BJP office, along with recommendations from senior leaders were discussed.”
“Apart from names of such candidates about whom the party had received feedback from party workers at different constituencies were also discussed,” added Prakash. Meanwhile the State Election Committee has authorized Chief Minister Raghubar Das, State president Laxman Gilua and BJP organizational secretary Dharampal Singh to add or remove names from probable list of candidates.
Sources said that the party election committee has prepared three to five names from a particular constituency. As the BJP central election committee is to take final call on the names of candidates, members of state election committee on Wednesday evening left for Delhi.
The eleven member central election committee of BJP headed by party national president Amit Shah and having members including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, surface transport and highway minister Nitin Gadkari, BJP working president JP Nadda and others.