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| BJP to project Kalyan Singh as UP CM | | | NEW DELHI | MARCH 9
The stage is set to formally project Kalyan Singh as the Chief Ministerial candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in election-bound Uttar Pradesh. A team of central leaders of the party, headed by its former national president, M Venkaiah Naidu, has succeeded in assuaging the feelings of the veteran leader.
Kalyan Singh was present when the central team discussed the panel of possible candidates for the upcoming UP Legislative Assembly elections in Lucknow on Thursday, March 8. The 75-year-old twice Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister was unhappy with the manner in which the State unit had gone about short listing panel of candidates for the 403-member Assembly.
The central election committee of the BJP would finalise the list of nominees at its two-day meeting beginning on Saturday. The first list of candidates for 62 constituencies slated to go to polls on April 7 in the first of the seven-phased polling is likely to be announced on Sunday.
Kalyan Singh's indifferent attitude was a matter of major concern for the party making a strong bid to reclaim power in India's most populous State after a gap of five years. The BJP, which has its base among the high caste Hindus, is banking heavily on Kalyan Singh to make inroads into his fellow lower caste voters.
BJP is in a buoyant mood about its prospects after its exceptionally good performance in Uttarakhand and Punjab in the just concluded Assembly elections. The process of BJP's upsurge had started late last year with BJP coming to power in several towns during the civic elections in the Uttar Pradesh.
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