The BJP is making an all-out effort to fend off the problem from a resurgent Congress.
New Delhi:
The BJP is hoping to win 66 of the 90 seats within the legislative meeting of Jammu and Kashmir, sources informed NDTV after a gathering of its Central Election Committee on Sunday. The committee had met to finalise the celebration’s candidates for the approaching meeting polls in Jammu and Kashmir — which is going down after a decade. The ultimate listing of candidates is anticipated on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief JP Nadda have been joined by different CEC members, together with House Minister Amit Shah, as they mentioned the matter with celebration leaders from the Union Territory.
Final week, the native leaders had held an extended assembly with Mr Nadda and Mr Shah, amongst others, to slim down the listing of probables. The meet additionally included a technique session.
Like final time, the BJP goes into polls with none sturdy native pre-poll alliance. However sources stated the celebration will lengthen help to regional events and Unbiased candidates within the meeting polls, which can start in September and might be held in three phases.
Earlier at present, Congress normal secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala hit out on the BJP over its feedback on the Grand Previous Celebration’s alliance with Omar Abdullah’s Nationwide Convention.
Accusing the BJP of hypocrisy, Mr Surjewala identified that the BJP has partnered each Nationwide Convention and Mehbooba Mufti’s Folks’s Democratic Celebration up to now.
“Have we ever requested the BJP whom they’ll ally with? Then why is the BJP questioning us? Had the BJP not allied with the Nationwide Convention or PDP up to now? They did. When you have got achieved this earlier than, why are you questioning us about our alliance?” ANI quoted Mr Surjewala as saying.
Within the 2014 election, when Jammu and Kashmir was a full-fledged state, the BJP had gained 25 seats. It had fashioned authorities in alliance with the PDP, which collapsed in 2018, after which the erstwhile state got here underneath President’s Rule. In 2019, Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing was revoked and the state was break up into two Union Territories.
This time, the BJP is making an all-out effort to fend off the problem from a resurgent Congress, and its ally the Nationwide Convention.
The 90-member meeting of Jammu and Kashmir goes to polls in three phases — September 18 and 25 and October 1. The counting of votes might be held on October 4.
The following BJP CEC assembly is scheduled for August 29 to strategise for Haryana polls. The BJP is going through a powerful problem from the Congress in Haryana, the place it has been in energy since 2014.
