Bengaluru : The Bharatiya Janata Party Central Election Committee is expected to announce party candidates by evening on Friday for the two assembly seats for which Byelection are scheduled to be held on May 19.
BJP party sources here said that the Central leaders are expected to endorse the names recommended by the State Core Committee yesterday.
The Core Committee has recommended Chikkanagoudar for the Kundagol Assembly seat, while the names of Ramachandra Jadhav and Dr Avinash Jadhav, both family members of the former Congress MLA, Dr Umesh Jadhav, who had joined the Saffron party recently and caused the byelection to Chincholi Assembly seat.
The byelection to Kundagol was caused following the death of the Congress MLA and Minister C S Shivalli recently.
The State Congress leaders are yet to finalise its candidates for both the Assembly seats, as there are several aspirants.
The JD(S), alliance partner in the coalition government, has decided not to contest but extend its unconditional support to the Congress candidates.
