Release of BJP’s state LS candidates list delayed after Parrikar’s death

Team Udayavani, Mar 18, 2019, 10:01 AM IST

Bengaluru: The passing away of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has further delayed the announcement of BJP’s first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls in the state, informed sources.

Reportedly, State BJP unit president B S Yeddyurappa on Sunday, March 17 departed for New Delhi to attend the BJP central election commission meeting and get the approval for the final list of candidates for the Lok Sabha constituencies, but the meeting was cancelled following the death of Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar.

A BJP leader on Monday informed that ” The meeting is expected to be held on Tuesday where we will get a clear picture.”

The state BJP unit on Sunday said that it has shortlisted candidates for all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies and the party’s central election committee would soon take a call on it.
    
“We have shortlisted the names of all the candidates (in Karnataka). The central election committee will take a decision on it and release the list,” BJP state general secretary Arvind Limbavali told reporters.
     
He was speaking after the party’s state core meeting here, chaired by BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa. BJP general secretary and state unit in-charge P Muralidhar Rao, BJP organising secretary (in-charge south India) B L Santosh, former chief ministers D V Sadananda Gowda and Jagadish Shettar were among those who attended the meeting.