Congress is expected to finalize some of its candidates in the Bihar assembly ballot on Monday.
New Delhi:
Congress is likely to finalize some of its candidates for the Bihar Assembly ballot on Monday when the party’s central election committee could meet virtually.
The Congressional Selection Committee on Bihar met here on Sunday and it is learned that it has discussed the names of likely candidates for the state’s upcoming elections.
The screening panel meeting, chaired by Avinash Pande, was attended by Shakti Sinh Gohil, Bihar Congress official, Madan Mohan Jha, Bihar Congress leader and PLC leader Sadanand Singh, among others.
The Central Elections Committee (CEC) headed by party leader Sonia Gandhi will likely meet on Monday to finalize some of the candidates the selection committee will recommend.
On Saturday, the opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar announced a seat-sharing formula for the upcoming Assembly polls whereby Congress will contest 70 of the 243 seats in total.
Voting for the Bihar assembly will take place in three phases on October 28, November 3 and November 7, and the count will take place on November 10.
The nomination process for the first phase, in which 71 of a total of 243 seats will go to the polls, began on October 1 and will end on October 8.
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