The BJP Monday launched its fourth checklist of six candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir meeting polls, fielding its union territory unit president Ravinder Raina from Nowshera within the Jammu area.
With the recent checklist, the celebration has to this point named 51 candidates, together with 14 for the Kashmir Valley, the place the BJP is but to open its account in meeting elections.
The 47-year-old Raina, who gained from Nowshera in Rajouri district within the 2014 polls too, has been fielded once more from his residence constituency. Raina, who took over because the celebration president in Jammu and Kashmir in Might 2018, thanked the celebration for reposing religion in him and expressed confidence of profitable a majority of the seats within the Union Territory to type the subsequent authorities.
“The BJP’s reputation has grown manifold through the years below the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who restored peace and normalcy in J-Okay moreover guaranteeing improvement and justice to each part of the society previously 10 years,” he instructed PTI.
“We’ll win the elections to type our personal authorities with the primary chief minister from the saffron celebration,” he stated. Raina’s fundamental rival from the seat is former MLC Surinder Choudhary who joined the Nationwide Convention in July 2023 after greater than a 12 months with the BJP.
The opposite names within the checklist are: former MLC Vibodh Gupta from Rajouri (ST) within the Jammu area; and Aijaiz Hussain (Lal Chowk), Arif Raja (Eidgah), Ali Mohammad Mir (Khansahib) and Zahid Hussain (Chrar-e-Sharief) from the Kashmir Valley.
The checklist was launched on the approval of the celebration’s central election committee for the second section of elections. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which has a 90-member meeting, goes to polls in three phases on September 18, 25 and October 1.
This would be the first meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir for the reason that revocation of Article 370 of the Structure in August 2019 and the state’s division in two union territories.
The BJP launched the primary checklist of 15 candidates adopted by one other checklist of 1 candidate on August 26 for the primary section of elections.
