NEW DELHI: HOme Minister Amit Shah today, April 12,chaired a meeting to finalise the candidates for the remaining 35 seats for the Karnataka Assembly elections. The list of the remaining seats is likely to be released tomorrow, April 13m  source said.

The BJP yesterday announced its first list of 189 candidates for the election that is scheduled to be held on May 10 As per top BJP source information, Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the meeting and discussion was held on each name suggested by the party's Karnataka core group. There could be more fresh names in the remaining list. The first list had 52 new faces.

Bharatiya Janata Party national President JP Nadda, National General Secretary (Org), B.L. Santhosh and State in-charge Arun Singh, election in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan, were present in the meeting.

After the first list was out, some state leaders were not hapy. Sources said this was also discussed in the meeting. In the first list, the Bharatiya Janata Party  has given place to Congress turncoats.

Karnataka has a total of 224 Assembly seats and a party needs to cross the halfway mark of 113 so as to form the government.

The Karnataka assembly elections will take place on May 10 in a single phase, and the results will be tallied on May 13.

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