06-Mar-2024 03:22 PM
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Shivamogga, Mar 6 (Reporter) Former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP Parliamentary board member BS Yediyurappa will be visiting New Delhi to participate in the party's election committee meeting where candidates from almost all the 28 seats in the state will be finalised.
"Meetings are going to be held today, tomorrow and the day after. The day after tomorrow, the list of candidates will be finalised. We will wait and see," he told reporters here.
"I am going to participate in the meeting. Candidates from almost all the 28 seats will be finalised by the in-charge in the meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Dr Radha Mohan Das Agarwal," he said.
The BJP had announced its first list of 195 candidates across 16 states and union territories on March 2.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the BJP had won 25 of the 28 seats in the state. The Congress and JDS, which allied, won only one seat each. The remaining seat was won by an independent candidate.
Meanwhile, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President DK Shivakumar said the Congress party's central election committee would finalise the first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha election in the state tomorrow.
"We will have our final central election committee meeting on March 7. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and I are going to Delhi on March 7 where we will finalise the (first) list of candidates," he said.
Already, Siddaramaiah had held a meeting with the party's Karnataka charge Randeep Singh Surjewala on Monday.
Asked about the FSL report of alleged 'Pro-Pakistan' slogans raised at Vidhan Soudha, Yediyurappa said the state government's action on it looks like they are not doing anything. "However, law will take its course," he added...////...