On Wednesday evening, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central Election Committee (CEC) held a meeting at party headquarters to finalise the names of its remaining candidates for the Rajasthan and Telangana assembly elections. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other senior party leaders. Union Minister Amit Shah and party president JP Nadda also attended the meeting.
The party released a video of the CEC meeting on Social media X (previously known as Twitter) and wrote, ‘Glimpses of CEC meeting held at National Headquarters in Delhi.’
Glimpses from BJP Central Election Committee Meeting being held at party's headquarters in New Delhi. pic.twitter.com/CWUJ6R17Un
— BJP (@BJP4India) November 1, 2023
The party has not yet announced the names of its candidates for 76 seats for the elections of 200-member Rajasthan Assembly. Voting is on November 25 in the state. The party has so far announced its candidates for 53 seats for the Telangana elections. Voting for the 119-member state assembly is on November 30.
The party can make an announcement on the names of the candidates late tonight or tomorrow morning.
BJP has fielded seven MPs in Rajasthan and three MPs in Telangana elections. Assembly elections are to be held in five states, including Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram, between November 7 and November 30, which is being seen by many observers as a semi-final ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.