India, Oct. 12 -- The West Bengal BJP has begun preparations in earnest for this year's municipal elections, likely to be held soon after the Durga Pujas, Union Minister and former State party president Sukanta Majumdar said on Sunday, adding the party would be very circumspect in giving tickets to the prospective candidates.

Indicating that the leadership had no plans to pick and choose candidates arbitrarily, Majumdar said that the interested persons could offer their candidatures by dropping their bio-data in drop boxes kept outside the party offices.

"Those who want to contest the civic elections are required to drop their names along with the bio-data in the drop boxes of the respective party offices. only those candidates who are ...