Lok Sabha Elections: BJP CEC meeting to be held today at 5.30 pm in Delhi

With the Lok Sabha elections less than a month away, political parties have accelerated their campaigning and permutations and combinations to get allies on board.

The BJP is likely to release its first list of candidates today, when its central election committee is scheduled to meet. The list will have names of most of the candidates for the first phase of polling, which will be held on April 11 in 91 seats.

States that will go to polls on April 11 in the first phase of the upcoming seven-phase Lok Sabha elections are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

The RJD-led 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) is also expected to announce the seat sharing formula for the Lok Sabha polls on today, according to Hindustani Awami Morcha (Secular) president Jitan Ram Manjhi.

The grand alliance hit a rough patch after some parties expressed reservations over the Congress being allotted 11 of the total 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

The situation worsened, with the RJD upset with the Congress’s ‘pressure tactic’ of claiming before a formal announcement that the seat-sharing had been clinched and it had got 11 seats.