New Delhi, Aug 23: Ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly election due next month, the BJP has geared up the preparation and held multiple meetings in Delhi as well as in J&K while the BJP’s core group meeting for the J&K assembly election was held at BJP National President JP Nadda’s residence in Delhi.
The meeting was chaired by Nadda while Union Minister Amit Shah and all the core group members, including Union Minister and Election in charge G Kishan Reddy and Ram Madhav, along with other leaders National General Secretary and BJP J&K in charge Tarun Chugh, co-incharge Ashish Sood, MP Jammu Juggal Kishor, State General Secretary (Organisation) Ashok Kaul, State President Ravinder Raina, Union Minster and MP from Jammu Jitender Singh were present in the meeting.
According to sources, “There will be discussion on the names of the candidates on the 90 seats. This election is important from many aspects especially the security of the states. Names will be shortlisted in this meeting which will be further discussed and finalised in the CEC meet on August 25.”
As per the senior leader, “Jammu region is going to be important for the BJP as after the delimitation number of assembly seats have increased to 43. We are going to put all our efforts in Jammu as we have a lot of expectations from the Jammu region.”
Notably, Ram Madha has been made BJP election in charge for upcoming polls in J&K.
Madhav was instrumental in stitching the alliance between BJP-PDP in 2014.