From Our Correspondent
Agartala: The screening committee headed by Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi will meet either in Guwahati or Delhi on December 11 next to short list the party’s potential candidates for the 2013 Assembly election, said a senior party leader.
The six-member panel is scheduled to meet on December 11 though the venue for the meeting is yet to be decided, said MLA Birajit Sinha, who is also part of the panel here on Sunday. He said the panel would discuss on the list of PCC election committee and submit ‘modified’ list to the Central Election Committee (CEC), AICC for taking necessary steps.
The scrutiny committee includes AICC general secretary Luizinho Faleiro, AICC secretary Jitin Prasad, TPCC president Sudip Roy Barman, CLP leader Ratan Lal Nath and former PCC president Sinha.
The PCC election committee has short listed 209 potential candidates for the 60 Assembly constituencies, Sinha said adding that the talks between Congress and INPT are still going on. Sinha said countless bogus names were included in the electoral rolls during the special revision. ‘‘As many as 300 bogus names were included in the electoral rolls of Kailashahar on the basis of false documents,” Sinha said adding that Congress would lodge specific complaint with police very soon.