Himachal Assembly polls | BJP holds ‘ballot voting’ to select candidates
The HinduAs Himachal Pradesh is set to face Assembly election on November 12, the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party has decided to select its candidates through ‘ballot voting’ by party workers in the State. BJP State president Suresh Kashyap on Sunday said that in order to select the candidates for the upcoming poll, the party is in the process of collecting opinions from its workers on their favoured candidates from the grassroots. In this meeting, the BJP State office-bearers, district and divisional office-bearers, chairman, vice chairman, president of frontier organisations of the party, general secretaries, and winning candidates of Panchayati Raj institutions participated and gave their opinion to the party through ‘ballot voting’,” said Mr. Kashyap. The purpose of the exercise is to take into confidence the opinion of BJP ‘karyakartas’ to ensure that our candidates are in a comfortable winning position,” he said.