Gujarat BJP Parliamentary Board meeting to be held today, the first list of candidates will be released on April 9.

With the local body polls in Gujarat scheduled to be held on April 26, a large number of contenders have been registered in the process of deciding the BJP's candidates in different districts and cities of the state. A meeting of the State Parliamentary Board is scheduled to be held on April 7. The names of BJP candidates for municipal corporations, municipalities, zilla panchayats and taluka panchayats will be discussed in the state parliamentary board. A panel of three to four names decided by city and district coordination officials will be discussed and then the name of the final candidate will be sealed. CM, DyCM, State President Election Committee meeting office bearers The BJP is going to start discussing the names of the candidates for the local body elections from today. The meeting of the State Parliamentary Board will be held at the Chief Minister's residence in which Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Deputy Chief Minister Harsh Sanghvi, state president Jagdish Vishwakarma and other ministers and senior functionaries who are office bearers of the election committee will be held. They will discuss municipal corporations, municipalities and taluka and district panchayat seats. A panel of 12 names has been prepared for four candidates. A panel of 12 names has been prepared for four candidates, including one candidate for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. The panel will be announced by the state parliamentary board after discussing all the names. BJP's first list to be released on April 9 The Gujarat state BJP will discuss different names. The list of municipal corporations including Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot will be announced first. While the last date for filing nomination papers is April 11, the BJP is likely to announce the candidates for the municipal elections on April 9 and then for the municipal and district and taluka panchayat elections gradually.