The BJP has fielded Ravinder Raina from the Nowshera seat, Arif Raja from the Eidgah seat, Er. Aijaz Hussain from the Lal Chowk seat, Dr Ali Mohammad Mir from the Khansahib seat, Zahid Hussain from Chrar-i-Sharif seat and Vibodh Gupta from the Rajouri (ST) seat.
Earlier on August 27, the BJP issued its third list of 29 candidates for the second and third phases of the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
The party fielded Murtaza Khan from Mendhar, Sunil Bhardwaj from Ramnagar (SC), Chowdhary Abdul Ghani from Poonch Haveli, Pawan Gupta from Udhampur West, Mohd Iqbal Malik from Thannamandi, and Baldev Raj Sharma from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi, among others.
This comes after the party released the first two lists of 16 candidates on August 26.
Polling in Jammu and Kashmir will be conducted in three phases on September 18, 25, and October 1. The counting of votes will take place on October 8.
Jammu and Kashmir has 90 assembly constituencies, with 7 seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and 9 for Scheduled Tribes (STs).
As per the Election Commission of India, Jammu and Kashmir has 88.06 lakh eligible electors.
In the previous Assembly elections, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) won 28 seats, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured 25, the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) won 15, and the Congress won 12.
These upcoming elections will be the first in Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370. (ANI)
