The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released a revised list of candidates for 15 seats in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. The list comes minutes after the BJP withdrew its first list of 44 candidates for the three phases of voting in the Union territory.
The new list includes names of candidates for only first phase of voting in the Union Territory scheduled for September 18. It covers seven seats in Kashmir and eight seats in the Jammu division of the Union Territory.
In the first phase of the elections, up to 24 seats are up for election. two more rounds Voting is scheduled for September 25 and October 1. The counting of votes will take place on October 4.
“The names for the second and third phase of elections given in an earlier list should not be considered,” the BJP said.
Prominent names announced today include Syed Showkat Andrabi from Pampore, Arshid Bhat from Rajpora, Javed Qadri from Shopian, Syed Wazahat from Anantnag, Salim Bhat from Banihal, Gajay Rana from Doda and Veer Saraf from Shangus-Anantnag East seat.
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The three-phase voting will be the shortest voting period in any assembly election held in Jammu and Kashmir since the 2002 polls.
In 2002, elections were held in four phases, in 2008 elections were held in seven phases, while in 2014 Assembly elections were held in five phases.
The last elections
In the 2014 Assembly elections, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) emerged as the largest party with 28 seats. All the seats that the PDP won were in Kashmir ValleyThe BJP came second with 25 seats. All the seats won by the BJP were from Jammu.
The PDP led by Mufti Mohamed Sayeed decided to join forces with the BJP in an unprecedented alliance between two parties with opposing ideologies.
The NC had won 15 seats while the Congress won 12 seats in the 2014 elections. The remaining seats went to other parties. This was the last assembly election before the territory’s special status under the Article 370 It was revoked and Ladakh was carved out as a Union Territory in 2019.
However, the PDP-BJP government could not last for the entire six-year term as the BJP withdrew its support to former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti. People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in 2018. Since then, the former state has been under central government.
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