The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state election committee for Haryana met here on Thursday and discussed possible candidates for the October 1 elections in the state. The meeting will continue for the second day on Friday.
The 21 members of the committee, including the Chief Minister of Haryana Nayab Singh Saini and former prime minister Manohar Lal Khattar, attend the two-day meeting at the party’s Gurukamal district office in Gurugram, news agency PTI reported.
He elections The election to the 90-member Haryana House of Assembly will be held in a single phase on October 1. The results will be declared on October 4, along with those of the Jammu and Kashmir where elections are held in three phases.
On the first day of the meeting, the committee members agreed on some names from among the applications received for some assemblies. Other names will be discussed on Friday, the PTI report said, citing sources.
Haryana BJP president Mohan Lal Baroli, state co-in-charge Surendra Nagar, state election in-charge and Union Education Minister Dharmendra PradhanCo-election incharge Biplab Deb, Gurugram MP and Union Minister Rao Indrajit Singh, Faridabad MP and Union Minister Krishan Pal Gurjar were also present in the meeting.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, the BJP won 40 seats and formed a coalition government with the Dushyant Chautala-the Jannayak Janta Party led by President Barack Obama, which had won 10 seats in the 90-member assembly.
The BJP-JJP alliance broke down earlier this year.
After the meeting is concluded, the list of three names decided for each Vidhan Sabha will be sent to the central management.
These names will also be discussed at the central level. After this, the name of the final candidate for each Vidhan Sabha will be announced. A report on this meeting will be sent to the central leadership by August 25, a senior BJP leader told news agency PTI.
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