Cong to finalize candidates' list for Delhi assembly poll

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Nov 08 2013 | 7:58 PM IST
After series of meetings and confabulations, Congress is all set to finalise its candidates for all 70 constituencies tomorrow when filing of nominations for the December 4 assembly election will begin.
The list of candidates will be finalised at a meeting of Central Election Committee to be chaired by party President Sonia Gandhi.
The party is likely to nominate all the sitting 43 MLAs barring a few who are facing serious criminal charges.
Sources in the party said candidates for around 60 assembly contituencies have already been finalised and a decision on remaining 10 seats will be taken at tomorrow's meeting.
The Screening Committee, headed by Union minister V Narayanasamy, held a series of meetings to finalise the list of probables for all the constituencies.
Sources said the Screening Committee had kept as pending applications of three sitting MLAs -- Dayanand Chandila (Rajouri Garden), Jaswant Rana (Narela) and Asif Mohammed Khan (Okhla) who are facing criminal charges.
A meeting of the party's Central Election Committee on October 28 had taken a decision that the names of candidates will be announced after Diwali.
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First Published: Nov 08 2013 | 7:58 PM IST

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