Congress central election committee to meet on Mar 7, finalise party candidates for LS polls
New Delhi(PTI): Top Congress leadership is likely to deliberate and finalise the candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections when the party's central election committee meets here on March 7.
So far, the BJP has taken a headway by declaring 195 party candidates even when the election dates are yet to be announced.
Congress sources said the party is likely to declare its first list of candidates soon to enable the candidate to start their poll campaign.
Several states have already held meetings of their respective screening committees and have forwarded the list of candidates for seats in their states.
These will be finalised by the top party leadership in the central election committee meet. Chaired by party president Mallikarjun Kharge, the committee also includes former party chiefs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, besides AICC general secretary K C Venugopal, Ambika Soni, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and T S Singhdeo, among others.
Meanwhile, the screening committee for Rajasthan met here this afternoon and forwarded the list of party candidates for the state's 25 Lok Sabha seats.
"We had a good meeting. We are finalising the names from various states. A meeting of CEC will be held on March 7 and it is expected that a good number of candidates will be declared after that," Sachin Pilot said after the Rajasthan screening committee meeting.
"It was good meeting and there is a good environment in our support. We are strengthening the INDIA bloc. The alliance has been finalised in some states and in future we will finalise the alliance in some other states as well," he said.
Asked if he would contest the polls, Pilot said the decision to contest or not is taken by the CEC.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
