Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 8: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Core Group is meeting tomorrow at party Headquarters, Trikuta Nagar here to discuss the names of probable candidates for the by-elections to Assembly segments of Nagrota in Jammu region and Budgam in Kashmir valley, which are going to polls on November 11.
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According to party sources, the meeting will be chaired by BJP national general secretary, Tarun Chugh who is also incharge of J&K and Ladakh UTs of the party and it will be attended by Union Minister in PMO, Dr Jitendra Singh among others. Both Chugh and Dr Jitendra Singh will reach here tomorrow morning from Union Capital.
The other Core Group members who will participate in the meeting included party president, Sat Sharma, BJP general secretary (Org), Ashok Koul, MPs Jugal Kishore Sharma and Ghulam Ali Khatana, Leader of Opposition, Sunil Sharma, former Dy CM, Dr Nirmal Singh, former party president, Ravinder Raina, party general secretaries including Baldev Singh Billawaria, Sangita Dogra , Gopal Mahajan, Anwar Khan, chief spokesperson, Sunil Sethi, chairperson, Wakf Board, Dr Darkshan Andrabi, Mahila Morcha president, Neha Mahajan and former general secretaries, Dr D K Manyal and Vibodh Gupta.
Sources said that after framing the list of probable candidates for two Assembly segments one in Jammu region and another in Kashmir valley in the Core Group, it will be submitted to Party High Command which will take the final decision on selection of candidates.
BJP national general secretary, Tarun Chugh told Excelsior that Core Group is meeting tomorrow at Jammu to discuss probable candidates for Assembly by-polls in the UT. He said the list of party candidates for Rajya Sabha will also be declared soon by the party High Command.
The by-elections to the Nagrota Assembly seat were necessitated after the death of its sitting member and senior BJP leader, Devender Singh Rana last year while the Budgam seat was vacated by the Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah as he had also contested from Ganderbal Assembly segment a traditional seat of his family and was elected from both the seats. However, Omar preferred to retain the Ganderbal seat and vacated the Budgam seat.
It may be recalled that it is for the second time in last two weeks that BJP Core Group is meeting in Jammu. Earlier the Core Group met on October 4 to discuss the probable candidates for four Rajya Sabha seats, the elections of which will be held on October 24.
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