 "Manmohan Singh, Congress")
The state election committee of the Congress in Karnataka is likely to finalise candidates for 130-150 constituencies out of 224 during a meeting on tomorrow. It has already conducted one round of meeting and discussed probable names in a possible joint opposition fight. By tomorrow, the party expects to get directions from the central leadership on the guidelines for selecting candidates, based on which the meeting will finalise candidates. Besides 123 sitting MLAs, the party is likely to recommend names of those who lost the 2013 Assembly elections narrowly.
Traders’ ire
Over 3,000 trade associations are expected to hold a
