NEW DELHI, 13 March, 2021 (TON): On Saturday later, the BJPs Central Election Committee (CEC) will meet later to finalize party candidates for assembly polls in four states and one union territory.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the CEC meeting, the sources said.

A BJP source said, “Names for all the seats for Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will be also be finalized in the meeting, where polling will be held in the third phase on April 6.”

The meeting to be held at the party’s national headquarters in the evening would be attended by the Prime Minister Modi, BJP chief J.P. Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, National General Secretary (Organization) B. L. Santosh and other members of the CEC.

Voting will take place in all the 140 seats of Kerala, 234 seats of Tamil Nadu, 30 seats of Puducherry on 6 April.

As the names for seats going for polls in first two phases have already been announced, on Friday, the BJP leaders from West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu arrived in the Delhi to initiate discussions on names of probable short-listed by state unit with Nadda. These names would be party nominees and would be placed at BJP CEC list.