BJP released the first list of 54 candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls today. CNN-IBN reported that sixteen candidates have been cleared from Maharashtra, which include Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur and Gopinath Munde from Beed. Seventeen names have been cleared from West Bengal.
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The BJP has also announced three candidates from Himanchal Pradesh, six from Odisha, five from Jammu and Kashmir and two from Arunanchal Pradesh.
Sources said the party is likely to finalise the seats for its top leaders and some seats where the candidates are strong and there is no dispute on them.
Early last week Arun Jaitley had said on Twitter that "First election comm(ittee) meeting is on 27th February", adding that "hopefully that day" the party will come out with its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
Interacting with the public on social networking site Twitter, Jaitley had also answered a host of queries posed to him where he expressed the hope that some expansion of NDA allies was possible but BJP was aiming to achieve the 272-plus figure and claimed it was close to it.
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