North News
New Delhi, September 3
After a Congress’ Central Election Committee meeting in New Delhi, AICC in-charge of Haryana, Deepak Babaria, said that a list of 49 names was presented before the Central Election Committee, out of which 34 have been approved and 15 are pending for approval and the final list will be released on Wednesday. “Names of 22 (sitting) MLAs have also been cleared. The meeting will continue tomorrow, and hopefully, the final list will be announced the day after tomorrow,” said Babaria on Monday. He also added that the criteria for candidature was based on the winnability of leaders whose names came up in surveys and who had not lost elections more than two times.
The Election Commission on Saturday deferred the Haryana assembly poll date to October 5 from October 1. This decision was made keeping in mind the centuries-old festival of the Bishnoi community. The counting of votes for Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana assembly polls will be held on October 8.
