Newly Reconstituted BJP Election Panel Meets to Finalise Himachal Candidates
News 18The newly reconstituted Central Election Committee of the BJP met for the first time on Tuesday evening to finalise the party’s candidates for the Himachal Pradesh assembly polls scheduled for November 12. The CEC, which now has 15 members, has new entrants such as B S Yediurappa, Union ministers Bhupender Yadav and Sarbananda Sonowal, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Om Mathur, party’s OBC Morcha president K Laxman, Iqbal Singh Lalpura, Satyanarayan Jatiya and Sudha Yadav. The BJP core group from the hill state had on Monday held extensive deliberations to narrow down the list of probables, with Home Minister Amit Shah and party national president J P Nadda also holding discussion on it. Himachal BJP president Suresh Kashyap has said the BJP also held an internal poll through ballot papers among its office-bearers across the state to assess their opinion on prospective candidates.