BJP likely to announce candidates on 100 LS seats

BJP is likely to declare names of its candidates on 100 Lok Sabha seats on Saturday at a meeting of its Central Election Committee.

Party sources said the BJP's top leadership is unlikely to discuss the seats in Uttar Pradesh and will finalise its candidates of other big states like Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Assam and other North Eastern states which go to polls in the first and second phase on April 7 and 9.

Senior party leaders L K Advani, Rajnath Singh, Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Murli Manohar Joshi besides others will meet in New Delhi to discuss and finalise the party's list of candidates.

The next meeting of the party leadership to finalise the candidates will be held next week before Holi.