Date:05/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/05/stories/2008110556590300.htm

New Delhi

Congress reviewing seats

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

NEW DELHI: With the BJP having officially announced its first list of 53 candidates for the Delhi Assembly elections, the Congress is now reviewing its own list of 53 names that had been unofficially finalised at the Central Election Committee meeting on October 25.

Sources in the Congress said that attempts were being made to see that none of the candidates were weak, on paper at least. As such, a little while earlier there was talk of four to six names being reviewed, now some are expecting that number to be higher at around 10 to 12.

Besides, the party also has to take the final call on the 17 seats that had been kept pending in the first place.