BJP to finalise candidates for LS elections for Delhi, U.P soon.

Byline: ANI

New Delhi, Jan 26, (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday said that the party would finalise its list of all candidates for Delhi and more than half of Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming General Elections by January 29.

BJP will be able to finalize the list during its Central Election Committee (CEC) meet to be held between Jan.28-29.

"I have called the next CEC meeting of BJP on January 28 and 29. We will finalise our Lok Sabha candidates for almost all the seats," BJP President Rajnath Singh told mediapersons in national capital on Monday.

The names of the selected candidates for the seven Lok Sabha constituencies of Delhi would be declared after the CEC meeting, BJP sources said.

Names of former BJP Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Vijay Kumar Malhotra, party general secretary Vijay Goel and Arun Jaitley are doing the rounds, stated a BJP leader requesting anonymity.

BJP candidates for 40 Lok Sabha seats from UP would also be declared. The party is in the process of choosing another candidate from Eta, after the declared candidate Kalyan Singh, resigned from the party last week.

The CEC may hold back declaration of candidates for some seats where more than one BJP leader is keen on contesting.

BJP has already declared four lists and finalised candidates for 36 Lok Sabha seats so far. The list include BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate L. K. Advani (Gandhinagar), Rajnath Singh (Ghaziabad), Yashwant Sinha (Hazaribagh), Navjot Singh Sidhu (Amritsar), Vinod Khanna (Hoshiyarpur), party vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi (Rampur), Ashok Pradhan (Bulandshahr). (ANI)

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