Earlier on August 27, the BJP issued its third list of 29 candidates for the second and third phases of the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir….reports Asian Lite News
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released the fourth list of candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections and fielded party unit chief Ravinder Raina from the Nowshera constituency.
The BJP has fielded Ravinder Raina from the Nowshera seat, Arif Raja from the Eidgah seat, Er. Aijaz Hussain from the Lal Chowk seat, Dr Ali Mohammad Mir from the Khansahib seat, Zahid Hussain from Chrar-i-Sharif seat and Vibodh Gupta from the Rajouri (ST) seat.
Earlier on August 27, the BJP issued its third list of 29 candidates for the second and third phases of the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
The party fielded Murtaza Khan from Mendhar, Sunil Bhardwaj from Ramnagar (SC), Chowdhary Abdul Ghani from Poonch Haveli, Pawan Gupta from Udhampur West, Mohd Iqbal Malik from Thannamandi, and Baldev Raj Sharma from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, among others.
This comes after the party released the first two lists of 16 candidates on August 26.
Polling in Jammu and Kashmir will be conducted in three phases on September 18, 25, and October 1. The counting of votes will take place on October 8.
Jammu and Kashmir has 90 assembly constituencies, with 7 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and 9 for Scheduled Tribes (STs).
As per the Election Commission of India, Jammu and Kashmir has 88.06 lakh eligible electors.
In the previous Assembly elections, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won 28 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 25, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) won 15, and the Congress won 12.
These upcoming elections will be the first in Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370.
‘Omar wanted to form govt with BJP in 2014’
Former senior National Conference (NC) leader and now BJP leader Devender Singh Rana claimed that Omar Abdullah met with BJP leaders Amit Shah and Ram Madhav in 2014 to request the formation of a government with NC.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devender Singh Rana, on Monday said, “Omar Abdullah is trying to mislead the people of Kashmir by telling them that every political party except National Conference is with the BJP. In 2014, when I was a part of the National Conference, we knocked on every door asking people to form govt with us as we had only 15 people. Omar Abdullah says that at the time they met Amit Shah and Ram Madhav to urge them to form govt with NC. As at the time BJP had declined NC’s request, they are saying all this now.”
He also added that between August 2019 and October 2021, many attempts were made by the National Conference to get in touch with BJP leadership to form some kind of association.
“Between 5th August 2019 and October 2021, when I was in the National Conference, many attempts were made to get in touch with BJP leadership to form some kind of association. Omar Abdullah should tell the truth. National Conference will not form govt…We have no alliance with any political party in Jammu and Kashmir,” he said.
Congress and the National Conference have allied for the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
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