MAHARASHTRA POLLS: BJP LIST LIKELY WITHIN A WEEK

Ahead of Maharashtra assembly polls, Bharatiya Janata Party held a meeting of its Central Election Committee in the national capital and discussed the party's candidates. The list of candidates is likely to be released within a week, the BJP sources said.

- 

The discussion were held on over 100 seats and the party will decide the names of its remaining candidates for 288-member Maharashtra assembly polls after seat sharing talks with its Mahayuti alliance partners, comprising Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, the sources said.

BJP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the party's national president JP Nadda chaired the meeting at the party headquarters under leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The meeting on Wednesday night was also attended by Home Minister Amit Shah and senior party leaders including Ashwini Vaishnav, Bhupendra Yadav, Piyush Goyal and Organization General Secretary B L Santosh.

Maharashtra BJP leaders including Deputy CM Fadnavis, Raosaheb Danve, Vinod Tawde, Ashish Shelar, were also present in the meeting which lasted for more than 2 hours.