Cong likely to release candidates list in Meghalaya this week

Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma today said Congress will contest all the 60 constituencies of the state and is likely to release the list of candidates for the February 27 assembly polls by this week.
The party's election committee and manifesto committee met and have nearly finalised the list today. Scrutinising of the candidates is complete and there are constituencies where the names of the candidates will be finalised within the next two days, he told reporters.
The committees have expressed to AICC leader C P Joshi on the need to complete the exercise by January 26, Sangma told newsmen here

"The Congress at the state-level has completed the exercises and the candidates have been more or less frozen. The names would now be presented before the party's central screening committee and the names will be announced with the approval of the AICC president," he told reporters.
Joshi and a host of AICC leaders were part of the several hour-long marathon meeting at the chief minister's bungalow during the day, party sources said.