PM Modi came to the BJP CEC meeting at its headquarters in Delhi.
New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Interior Minister Amit Shah arrived at the BJP headquarters in Delhi on Saturday, where the party is expected to discuss the list of candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar.
This will be the second meeting of the Central Electoral Committee or CEC of the BJP for the October-November elections.
Earlier this week, the BJP had formally included the Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and assigned it 11 seats as part of the distribution of seats among the allies for the Bihar elections.
The party, which is considered to have influence among the extremely backward classes (EBC) in the state, will take the place vacated by Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), which severed ties with the Nitish Kumar-led coalition in Bihar.
Janata Dal-United (JDU), on the other hand, had published a list of 115 candidates for the Bihar Assembly polls earlier this week. The party has denied tickets to 11 of its seated MLAs while accommodating the renegades.
The BJP and JDU had agreed to compete for 121-122 seats respectively in the 243-member assembly. JD-U, which has a share of 122 seats according to the understanding, has ceded seats to the Hindustani Awaam Morcha of Jitan Ram Manjhi of its quota.
Elections in the state will take place in three phases starting on October 28, with the results announced on November 10.
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