Party general secretary in-charge of Bihar, Ananth Kumar said the issues to be highlighted during the BJP election campaign and the strategy for the polls were discussed.
Owing to in-house differences, BJP Central Election Committee today failed to arrive at a consensus on party candidates for coming Bihar assembly elections and decided to meet again tomorrow.
"BJP CEC and state unit leaders from Bihar met today under the chairmanship of party president Nitin Gadkari and held a detailed discussion on ticket distribution and what the strategy should be for the forthcoming elections," party general secretary in-charge of Bihar Ananth Kumar said.
He said the issues to be highlighted during the BJP election campaign and the strategy for the polls were discussed.
"The CEC will meet again tomorrow and the list will be issued. The discussion today was incomplete," Kumar said.
Asked if differences between senior leaders was the reason behind the deferment, Kumar replied in the negative.
Senior party leaders from Bihar, including state unit President CP Thakur, deputy chief minister Sushil Modi, Radha Mohan Singh, Mangal Pandey, Ashwini Chaubey and central leaders from the state like Shahnawaz Hussain and Ravi Shankar Prasad are involved in finalising the list of probable candidates. All these leaders were present in today's meeting.
Other leaders present at the meeting included Arun Jaitley, who was earlier in-charge of Bihar, and present co-incharge of the state Dharmendra Pradhan.
Some of these leaders do not see eye-to-eye with each other on several issues and there are said to be major differences between them on who should be fielded from which constituency.
However, Kumar said there was no controversy.
"We had a serious discussion. The central leadership was apprised of the situation in the state. We will decide on the candidates after reaching a consensus," he said.
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