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Imphal, Jan 25:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to finalize and announce the names of the first list of candidates for the upcoming Manipur Legislative Assembly Election. Source said that the Central Election Committee (CEC) of the BJP has been conducting a series of meetings to finalise the candidates for all the Assembly elections of the five states including Manipur.
Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, State BJP President A. Sarda Devi and Minister Th. Biswajit are in Delhi till the filling of this report to finalise the name of the BJP candidates for Manipur Election. Some of the prominent figures of the state BJP are also reportedly stationing at New Delhi waiting for the announcement of the ticket. Source said that the CEC meeting is currently underway at the party headquarters in the national capital.
Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, BJP State president A. Sarda Devi and Minister Th. Biswajit are likely to return Imphal as the first list for candidates selected by the BJP to contest the Manipur Election has been finalized. A source said that the first list of BJP candidates may announce late today evening.
Another source added that a high-level BJP meeting was also held on Monday to discuss remaining candidates for the coming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, and as per sources, around 80 sitting MLAs are likely to be dropped and seats changed for almost a dozen overall. The core committee meeting was held in presence of Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attending. The Central Election Committee (CEC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Tuesday to give the final approval to the list.
So far, the BJP has announced 194 candidates for Uttar Pradesh and 34 candidates for Punjab, however, no list of candidates has been released for Manipur as of now. Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur will be completed in seven phases with UP being the first to go to the polls on February 10.
In Uttar Pradesh, the first phase polling will be held on February 10, the second phase on February 14, the third phase on February 20, the fourth phase on February 23, the fifth phase on February 27, the sixth phase on March 3 and the seventh phase on March 7.
Polling in Manipur will be held in two phases on February 27 and March 3 whereas the voting will take place in Uttarakhand and Goa on February 14 and Punjab will go to polls on February 20. The counting of votes for all five poll-bound states will take place on March 10.
