BMP polls: BJP to identify candidates from today

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, OCT. 1. The date for elections to the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike is yet to be announced, but the major Opposition parties have decided not to have any kind of understanding among themselves to fight the elections. The two major parties, the Janata Dal(U) and the Janata Dal(S), have announced that they would fight the elections on their own. Similar is the stand of the BJP, which fought the recent rural and urban local bodies elections on its own.

Notwithstanding the poor performance of the party in the last election when it was able to win only 27 seats in the 100-member council, the BJP has decided to put up its candidates from all the wards as it wants to make all-out efforts to come to power in the Mahanagara Palike. The party will launch the process of identification of candidates here on Tuesday at a meeting expected to be attended by about 3,000 workers. The party's State unit President, Mr. Basavaraj Patil Sedam, will participate. That the State Government is yet to announce the reservation of wards under the rotation system does not make any difference to the party, which, sources said, had decided to prepare a list of nine candidates for each ward so that it would be in a position to field a candidate from any ward without loss of time.

The sources said the party would attract the voters by its promise of giving a total development plan for the City which had been neglected by the erstwhile Janata Dal and Congress which had ruled the civic body in the last five years.

The City unit of the party, which was the first to launch the campaign for the elections through a two-week ``Janajagriti Abhiyana'', whose main objective was to expose the ``maladministration'' in the civic body in the last five years, and to explain the alternative the BJP had to offer to the people, had covered 85 of the 100 wards. The response to the ward meetings was beyond expectation and this would surely be reflected in the election results, sources felt.

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