BJP announces first phase names of candidates from Jammu and Kashmir

 


BJP announces candidates from Jammu and Kashmir, then narrows them down to keep only first phase names

The BJP today released a list of 44 candidates for the three-phase elections to 90 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, but dropped it soon after. A few hours later, the BJP released a new list, but it contained only the names of the 15 candidates selected for the first phase of the election. No changes were made to the candidates selected for the first phase.

Three key names were missing from the now deleted list - Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina and former deputy ministers Nirmal Singh and Kavinder Gupta. The list included the name of Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh's brother Devendra Rana, who quit the National Conference. There were also two Muslim candidates from the Kashmir Pandits Party (14) in the first list. Many former leaders of the Congress, National Conference, PDP and Panther Party, who switched camps and joined the BJP, were also on the strike list. Some important omissions, it is learned, led to an outburst of anger after the publication of the first list. It is this rejection that seems to have forced the party to withdraw the list in three phases and republish only the names of the candidates of the first phase.

Jammu and Kashmir will vote in three phases on September 19, 25 and October 1. The votes will be counted on October 4. This is the first Assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir after the former state lost its special status in 2019 and bifurcated into two Union Territories.

The first list of candidates was released this morning after the BJP's Central Election Committee finalized the party's choices for the upcoming elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP leader JP Nadda were present at the key meeting in Delhi yesterday. The last parliamentary elections in Jammu and Kashmir were held in 2014. In the 2014 elections, the BJP made a show of strength by winning 25 seats and the PDP was the single largest party with 28 wins. The ruling National Conference won 15 seats and the Congress 12. After the elections, the BJP and the PDP formed a surprise alliance government, led by Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and then by Mufti Mehbooba after the death of the former in 2016.

This time, Jammu and Kashmir is headed for a tripartite contest between BJP, PDP and the Nationalist-Congress alliance. The Congress and the National Conference, however, have yet to resolve their differences regarding the allocation of seats. Senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Salman Khurshid were brought to Srinagar to remove obstacles in the negotiations between the National Conference and local Congress leaders.

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