The Hindu : BJP poll panel to finalise Gujarat list on Nov.16

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BJP poll panel to finalise Gujarat list on Nov.16

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI NOV. 11. The BJP's central election committee will meet here on November 16 to finalise the party candidates for the Gujarat Assembly polls.Announcing this here today, the party president, Venkaiah Naidu, said the election committee in Gujarat had been asked to finalise its recommendations by November 15. The State party president is expected to come here when the committee meets.

Mr. Naidu said that if candidates for all the 187 seats could not be finalised in a day, the meeting could be extended for another day. The meeting is expected to be held at the residence of the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee. Both Mr. Vajpayee and the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, are members of the committee, which is chaired by the party president.

Mr. Naidu today rejected the view that if a change was made in the constituency of the Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, who currently represented Rajkot II, it was significant or a pointer to the BJP's nervousness. ``Mr. Advani may not contest from Gandhinagar the next time (when the Lok Sabha elections are due),'' Mr. Naidu said, and noticing surprise on the faces of journalists he added: ``(the Congress president) Sonia Gandhi contested from Amethi and Bellary the last time.''

Cong. list today

PTI reports:

The central election committee of the Congress party would meet here tomorrow to finalise its candidates for the Gujarat Assembly. Presided over by the party president, Sonia Gandhi, the meeting would be attended by the AICC secretary-general in-charge of the Gujarat affairs, Kamal Nath, the PCC president, Shankersinh Waghela, the CLP leader, Amar Singh Chaudhary.

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