Gujarat Congress president Amit Chavda and his party colleague Paresh Dhanani Friday dropped their plan to go to New Delhi upon learning that a meeting of the party's screening committee to finalise Lok Sabha candidates for the state has been cancelled.
While the screening committee was supposed to meet Saturday morning, both the leaders were scheduled to leave for New Delhi Friday.
"The meet was scheduled for tomorrow morning and we were supposed to attend it. Now, that meeting stands cancelled.
"We may be called again by central leadership once the new schedule for the screening committee gets finalised," said Dhanani, who is also the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly.
Till now, the Congress had declared its candidates for four seats in Gujarat for the April 23 general elections.
While the state party unit has already sent names of all the probable candidates to the central leadership, a decision on remaining 22 seats is still pending.
According to Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi, there is a possibility that candidates on some seats would be declared in coming days following an approval by the Central Election Committee (CEC).
Meanwhile, senior BJP leaders, led by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, reached Delhi Friday to submit a list of probable Lok Sabha candidates in Gujarat to the party's central Parliamentary Board.
While the the BJP has already announced its president Amit Shah's name for the Gandhinagar seat, no announcement has been made yet by the party about the remaining 25 seats.
In the 2014 polls, the ruling party had won all the 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah.
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