Assembly Elections 2021: Crucial BJP CEC meet put off
India
Updated: Friday, March 5, 2021, 16:23 [IST]
New Delhi, Mar 05: The meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central Election Committee (CEC) scheduled to be held today to finalise the party s first list of candidates for the initial phases of assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam, has been cancelled, ANI reported.
Earlier on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda and other senior party leaders including Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh held the meeting at the party headquarters.
In the meeting which was held yesterday, the party leaders discussed the names of BJP candidates for the First Phase of the polls in Assam and West Bengal.
Assembly polls will be held in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in different phases from March 27 to April 29. About 824 seats are going for polls in four states and one UT. Counting of votes will take place on May 2.Prim