New Delhi, Jan 27 (TIWN) The BJP's Central Election Committee is meeting at the party's headquarters here to finalise candidates for the February 16 Tripura Assembly elections.

"During the meeting, the names of the candidates for the Tripura elections will be stamped, as well as the election strategy of the three North-East states will also be discussed," party sources told ANI.  All members of CEC will participate in the meeting, they said.   Ahead of the CEC meeting to be held today, a round of meetings continued throughout the day on Thursday regarding the strategy and names of the candidates for the Tripura Assembly elections.  According to party sources, the meeting on Thursday started at around 5 pm under the leadership of the BJP National President JP Nadda and in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah, Tripura in-charge Dr Mahesh Sharma, North Eastern States Convenor Sambit Patra and Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha.  Apart from these, all the members of the BJP core group were also present in the meeting which continued till 10.30 pm.