MPCC okays Jyotin, Bijoy
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 24 2015 :
Application forms submitted by Jyotin Waikhom and Bijoy Koijam for fighting the by-election to Thangmeiband A/C and Thongju A/C res-pectively on Congress tickets have been approved by the party's ticket committee.
Notably, no other individuals applied for Congress tickets for the by-election scheduled on November 21 .
Among others, the ticket committee meeting held at Congress Bhavan here this afternoon was attended by Chief Minister O Ibobi and MPCC president Gaikha-ngam, and the meeting agreed to recommend the names of Jyotin Waikhom and Bijoy Koijam as Congress candidates in Thang-meiband A/C and Thongju A/C respectively.
It was reported that the names of Jyotin Waikhom and Bijoy Koijam have been forwarded for due approval of the AICC.
Meanwhile, information received by press revealed that Kh Joykishan and Th Bishwajit are most likely to be fielded as BJP candidates in the by-election.
After the matter was discussed in a meeting of the BJP State election committee yesterday, a team of BJP Manipur Pradesh led by their president Th Chaoba left for Delhi today to obtain due approval of the candidature of Joykishan and Bishwajit.
The team led by Chaoba called on BJP Manipur in-charge Prahlad Patel this afternoon and Patel literally approved the list shown by the team.
The list only awaits approval of the BJP Parliamentary Board.
However, the board is yet to hold a meeting on the matter as board chairman and BJP president Amit Shah is presently away at Bihar.
The final list of BJP candidates is likely to be announced on November 27 .