“Will work towards making Modi ji PM for third time”: Jugal Kishore Sharma, BJP LS candidate from Jammu

Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday announced that Jugal Kishore Sharma will be contesting from Jammu and Dr Jitender Singh will contest from Udhampur Lok Sabha seat.
Jugal Kishore Sharma asserted that BJP will work for the public with more dedication, and “work towards making Modi ji the PM for the third time”.Jugal Kishore Sharma leader thanked the party’s top central leaders for allowing him to contest. He said, “I express gratitude towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP Chief JP Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and senior leadership of the party for giving me another opportunity to serve the public.”
Thanking the BJP’s state leaders and people of J and K, he said, “I also want to thank the BJP president of Jammu and Kashmir, Ravinder Rana, Ashok ji, my entire state team and especially the citizens of the Union territory who considered me worthy enough to serve them again.”
Assuring the people of J&K, he said, “We will work for the public with more dedication, and will work towards making Modi ji the PM for the third time.”
Highlighting that the BJP will surely win on three Lok Sabha seats in the J&K, he said, “Our party will fight on all the 5 seats of the UT. BJP will win 3 seats with majority, there will be fight on the 2 seats.”
Elaborating on J&K’s issues, he said that the most important is the development. “We will go ahead with the PM Modi’s resolution of inclusive development.”
Workers chanted slogans of ‘baar baar Modi sarkar’ and Bharat Mata ki jai as they burst crackers soon after the BJP announced its first list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, encompassing 16 States and 2 Union Territories with a total of 195 nominees.
The first list of candidates includes 34 ministers from both the Union and state levels, along with the name of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. The announced names included those for 51 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 20 in West Bengal and five in Delhi.Eight women and 47 young leaders feature in the party’s first list of candidates for 16 States and Union Territories, including 57 candidates from Other Backward Classes (OBC), 27 from Scheduled Castes (SC) and 17 from Scheduled Tribes (ST).Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla will fight again from Kota in Rajasthan, and Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar.
However, other Union Ministers whose names have been announced by the BJP in the first list of candidates include Rajnath Singh, Mansukh Mandaviya, Jitendra Singh, Sarbananda Sonowal, Gajendra Shekhawat, Bhupender Yadav, G Kishan Reddy, Kiren Rijiju, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Arjun Ram Meghwal and Arjun Munda.
The BJP has re-nominated Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for the Lucknow constituency and Union Minister Smriti Irani for Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. The party has also chosen to field actor-politician Hema Malini, MoS Home Affairs Ajay Mishra Teni, Mahesh Sharma, SPS Baghel, and Sakshi Maharaj once more in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from UP.
The BJP announced the list of 15 candidates from Gujarat for the upcoming Lok Sabha election. Gujarat has a total of 26 Lok Sabha seats.Among those repeated are Vinod Chavda on the Kutch seat, which is reserved for Schedule Caste candidates, Bharatsinh Dabhi on the Patan seat, Amitbhai Shah on the Gandhinagar seat, Poonamben Madam on the Jamnagar seat, Miteshbhai Patel on the Anand seat, Devusinh Chauhan on the Kheda seat, Mansukh Vasava on the Bharuch seat, Prabhubhai Vasava on the Bardoli seat; and CR Patil on the Navsari seat.
State BJP President and BJP Lok Sabha Candidate from Navsari CR Patil has exuded his confidence in the party winning all the 26 seats in the state.”BJP will win all 26 seats in Gujarat. And we are moving ahead with the aim that all 26 seats are won with more than 5 lakh votes. The party workers are eager to have this victory…” Patil said.
Dinesh Makwana (Karnavati city unit BJP spokesperson) and former Deputy Mayor of AMC is the new faces for the Ahmedabad (West) seat, which is reserved for Schedule Caste candidates.
The seats for which candidates are yet to be announced are Sabarkantha, Mahesana, Ahmedabad East, Vadodara, Chhota Udepur, Surat, Valsad, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Junagadh and Surendranagar.In Madhya Pradesh, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia is set to vie for the seat in his familial stronghold of Guna, while former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will contest for the Vidisha constituency.(ANI)