Several rallies proposed
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 1: BJP’s star campaigners including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, national president JP Nadda and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are expected to join the election campaign in Jammu and Kashmir to address several rallies from September 9 onwards.
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Campaigning in Jammu and Kashmir will end on September 29 as October 1 is the polling date for third and final phase.
“The BJP high command has been finalizing schedule of start campaigners for Jammu and Kashmir as well as Haryana which will have single day voting on October 5,” the party leaders said.
Both Jammu and Kashmir and Haryana have 90 seats Assembly. However, there is a provision for nomination of five MLAs in J&K including two women, two Kashmiri migrants, one of them a woman, and a Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK) refugee.
Excelsior had earlier exclusively reported that Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, JP Nadda and Rajnath Singh will address a series of election rallies in Jammu and Kashmir during campaign for the party candidates in the Assembly elections.
The BJP top brass will start addressing election rallies from September 9 onwards. The rallies will last till September 29, the last day of campaigning.
Apart from top four leaders of the BJP, several Union Ministers, Chief Ministers of the BJP ruled States and senior leaders of the party from different States will campaign for the BJP candidates across Jammu and Kashmir, the party leaders said.
First phase of elections are scheduled to be held on September 18, second phase on September 25 and third phase on October 1. Counting of votes will be held on October 8.
In 2014 elections, the BJP won 25 seats. However, with party rebel Pawan Gupta who won Udhampur seat as an Independent candidate returning to the BJP, the number had gone up to 26 out of then total 37 seats in Jammu division. Now, the Jammu region has 43 seats.
Jammu and Kashmir presently has 90-seat Assembly as against previously 87. However, Ladakh which was third division of J&K and is now a UT, had four Assembly seats which reduced number to 83 while seven seats were increased-six in Jammu division and one in the Kashmir valley. Kashmir earlier had 46 seats.
Twenty four seats in the J&K Assembly are reserved for PoJK.
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