Karnataka Assembly Elections 2023: The Congress on Thursday said its screening committee has finalized the list of candidates for most of the constituencies for the upcoming polls and will soon send it to the party high command for approval.
Talking to media persons here, state Congress president DK Shivakumar said, “Our screening committee reviewed all the applications of the candidates. The opinion of the Screening Committee will be sent to the Central Election Committee of the All India Congress Committee for final review.”
“We kept social engineering in mind while formulating our recommendations. We will release our list of candidates soon after the election date is announced by the Election Commission,” he said.
During this, the National General Secretary of the Congress and Karnataka In-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala also said that the screening committee constituted by AICC met for three days in Bengaluru and finalized the list of candidates, PTI reported.
“The screening committee met for three days and discussed each of the 224 assembly seats in the state. We have tried to build a consensus. We will very soon take a large number of those seats to the Central Election Committee for approval And further discussions,” Surjewala said.
He further said that the enthusiastic response received by the party will boost the competitiveness of our more than 150 missions.
Congress will win more than 140 seats in Karnataka: Shivakumar
Surveys indicate that the Congress is projected to win over 140 of the total 224 seats in the upcoming karnataka assembly electionsShivakumar made the claim on Tuesday as he also suggested that several sitting MLAs of the ruling BJP would join the party in the coming days.
He also said that the BJP wanted to hold elections in Karnataka soon after the results of the 2022 Gujarat elections, but backed out from the move.
Asserting that the Congress is ready for the elections, even if it is held immediately, Shivakumar said the Election Commission should immediately announce the election dates, “without giving all these things a chance to happen”, and “this Rampant corruption must be stopped” this is what is happening”.
The Congress was in power in the state from 2013 to 2018, with senior leader Siddaramaiah heading the government. The party was part of a short-lived coalition government with the JD(S) from 2018 to 2019.
(With PTI inputs)
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