The Central Election Committee (CEC) of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will meet here on Friday to select the candidates for the Telangana Assembly elections and the remaining candidates for Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. At approximately 7 p.m., the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in the nation’s capital will host the meeting. The Bharatiya Janata Party has declared 85 out of 90 candidates for the Chhattisgarh assembly polls. The party has released lists of 41 candidates for 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan, while it has announced candidates for 136 of the 230 seats in Madhya Pradesh.
Many Lok Sabha MPs and ministers in the Union government have been given tickets to contest the assembly elections, prominent among them are Union Minister Narendra Tomar and Pralhad Patel from MP and Lok Sabha MP Rajyavardhan Rathore in Rajasthan.
Meanwhile, the Election Commission has announced that the first phase of polling for 20 seats in Chhattisgarh will be held on November 7, and the remaining 70 seats in Chhattisgarh will go to polls on November 17.
Polls will be held in Mizoram on November 7, Chhattisgarh on November 7 and November 17, Madhya Pradesh on November 17, Rajasthan on November 25 and Telangana on November 30.
The counting of votes will take place on December 3 in all the states. Of the five states, polling in Chhattisgarh will be held in two phases.
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