Screening committee meeting of Congress for selection of Gujarat LS candidates held

New Delhi/Ahmedabad: The meeting of the screening committee for selection of LS polls candidates for all 26 seats in Gujarat was held in New Delhi today, state party in-charge Rajiv Satav informed.

Apart from Satav, GPCC president Amit Chavda, LoP Paresh Dhanani and National General Secretary (organization) K C Venugopal also participated in the meeting.

Satav later said that the candidate selection process was in final phases.

‘We had held the pradesh election committee meeting in this regard a few days ago and now the screening committee went through the list of candidates to finalize it,’ he said.

Notably, Satav had earlier said that the list of candidates would be issued by the party only after announcement of the date of the election.

Meanwhile, voices of decent against proposed candidature of Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mewani as party supported independent candidate on Kutch LS seat have also reportedly started in the party circle.

A party leader said that many of the party carders in Kutch were against the idea of giving the seat to Mewani.

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