New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on November 18 night cleared 135 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly elections after a two-hour meeting of its Central Election Committee (CEC), but would announce them on November 19.

"The detailed list of the candidates will be released tomorrow," party general secretary Arun Jaitley told reporters after the meeting at Prime Minister's residence.

Asked from which constituency Chief Minister Narendra Modi would contest, Jaitley declined to comment saying, "You will soon get to know all the details about allocation of seats." Modi was also present at the meeting.

Jaitley said the candidates were finalised on the basis of recommendations made by the state election committee of the party.

He said nominees for the remaining 47 seats would be finalised by the state election panel after its members returned to Gandhinagar.

The CEC meeting, chaired by BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu, was attended by Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, Finance Minister Jaswant Singh, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pramod Mahajan, Textile Minister Kashiram Rana, Gujarat BJP chief Rajendra Sinh Rana, party leaders Rajnath Singh and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.

PTI