Gilua, Das to send list of LS candidates to BJP central

The BJP Jharkhand unit Friday authorised state president Laxman Gilua, Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Organisational secretary Dharampal Singh to look into names of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls before sending it to party's central election committee.

A party press statement quoting state units general secretary Dipak Prakash, the state election committee discussed the election strategy to win all the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

The meeting discussed on probable candidates for the 13 constituencies before authorizing Gilua, Das and Singh to look into the names before sending them to the partys central election committee.

The BJP has allotted one seat to its ally Ajsu party, which was announced by BJP General Secretary Bhupendra Yadav after the BJP parliamentary board meeting on March 8 in Delhi.

Yadav announced a tie-up with Ajsu party, which is already a partner in the BJP-led government in the state.

Yadav said the BJP will contest 13 of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state and the Ajsu party one.

The BJP had contested all the 14 seats in the 2014 general elections and won 12 seats.