PM Modi, Shah attend BJP s CEC meeting to finalise remaining candidates for Bengal polls ANI | Updated: Mar 17, 2021 21:01 IST
New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): A meeting of the Central Election Committee (CEC) of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began at the party headquarters on Wednesday evening to finalise candidates for the remaining four phases of the West Bengal assembly elections.
The high-level meeting is being attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP President JP Nadda and other leaders.
The BJP has finalised candidates for the first four phases of the West Bengal polls. It has also finalised almost all candidates for polls in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Assam.
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Updated: Mar 14, 2021, 05:24 PM IST
The BJP on Sunday announced its star-studded list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam.
Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, the party general secretary Arun Singh announced the names of candidates and said, in all the poll-bound states, the environment is in favour of the BJP.