BJP’s Parliamentary Board member and former Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa indicated on Monday the party’s second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is likely to be finalised and released this week.
BJP came out with its first list of 195 candidates across 16 States and Union Territories on March 2.
Yediyurappa said he is going to the national capital on Wednesday.
“Day after tomorrow, there is a meeting in Delhi. I am going there. Most probably the second list (of Lok Sabha candidates) (also) comprising Karnataka may be finalised. In view of that, I am going to Delhi. I believe that the list will be finalised day after tomorrow. National leaders will take a final decision on the list,” he said.
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Asked if the second list of candidates will have names of nominees for all the 28 constituencies in Karnataka, Yediyurappa said: “Most probably there will not be any delay. All the seats may be declared.”
On the likelihood of some new faces being fielded in Karnataka, he said he has no clue as to what’s on the minds of the party’s national leaders. “Final decision will be taken by the leaders in Delhi”, he added.
The party stalwart also did not say how many seats would be allotted to NDA partner JD(S) in the State but added that an agreement would be reached with the outfit led by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda.
The BJP on Saturday announced the first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha election. BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawade announced the candidates for 51 seats from Uttar Pradesh, 20 from West Bengal, 24 from Madhya Pradesh, 15 each from Gujarat and Rajasthan, 12 from Kerala, 9 seats from Telangana, 11 from Assam, 11 each from Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, five from Delhi, two from Jammu and Kashmir, three from Uttarakhand, two from Arunachal Pradesh and one each from Goa, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar, and Daman and Diu.
The candidates include PM Modi from Varanasi, Smriti Irani from Amethi, Ravi Kishan from Gorakhpur and Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Vidisha among others.
(With inputs from PTI)