Jammu & Kashmir Elections: BJP Withdraws First List Of 44 Candidates, Releases 16 Names Later

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday withdrew its first list of 44 candidates for the upcoming Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections shortly after releasing it.

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Updated on: 26 August 2024 10:22 am

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released a list of 44 candidates for the upcoming Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections Photo: PTI/File

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday withdrew its first list of 44 candidates for the upcoming Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections and released a fresh list with 15 names. In both the withdrawn and the fresh list released by BJP, the party fielded Arshid Bhat from Rajpora, Javed Ahmad Qadri from Shopian, and Mohd. Rafiq Wani from Anantnag West.

Adv. Syed Wazahat has been fielded from Anantnag, Shagun Parihar from Kishtwar, and Gajay Singh Rana from Doda, as per the BJP list.

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Hours after the revised first list, the BJP released the name for another seat - Konkernag.

Revised 1st, 2nd List BJP Of Candidates For J&K Polls | All Names

Constituency	Candidate Name
Pampore	Er. Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi
Rajpora	Arshid Bhat
Shopian	Javed Ahmad Qadri
Anantnag West	Mohd Rafiq Wani
Anantnag	Adv. Syed Wazahat
Srigufwara-Bijbehara	Sofi Tousuf
Shangus-Anantnag East	Veer Saraf
Inderwal	Tariq Keen
Kishtwar	Shagun Parihar
Padder-Nagseni	Sunil Sharma
Bhadarwah	Daleep Singh Parihar
Doda	Gajay Singh Rana
Doda WEST	Shakti Raj Parihar
Ramban	Rakesh Thakur
Banihal	Salim Bhat
Konkernag	Choudhary Roshan Hussain Gujjar

Withdrawn List Of BJP Candidates

Constituency	Candidate Name
Pampore	Er. Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi
Rajpora	Arshid Bhat
Shopian	Javed Ahmad Qadri
Anantnag West	Mohd Rafiq Wani
Anantnag	Adv. Syed Wazahat
Srigufwara-Bijbehara	Sofi Tousuf
Shangus-Anantnag East	Veer Saraf
Inderwal	Tariq Keen
Kishtwar	Shagun Parihar
Padder-Nagseni	Sunil Sharma
Bhadarwah	Daleep Singh Parihar
Doda	Gajay Singh Rana
Doda WEST	Shakti Raj Parihar
Ramban	Rakesh Thakur
Banihal	Salim Bhat
Habbakadal	Ashok Bhat
Gulabgarh (ST)	Mohammad Akram Chaudhary
Reasi	Kuldeep Raj Dubey
Mata Vaishno Devi	Rohit Dubey
Kalakote-Sunderbani	Thakur Randhir Singh
Budhal (ST)	Chowdhary Zulfikar Ali
Thannamandi (ST)	Mohd Iqbal Malik
Surankote (ST)	Syed Mushtaq Ahmad Bukhari
Poonch Haveli	Chowdhary Abdul Ghani
Mendhar (ST)	Murtaza Khan
Udhampur West	Pawan Gupta
Chenani	Balwant Singh Mankotia
Ramnagar (SC)	Sunil Bhardwaj
Bani	Jeevan Lal
Billawar	Satish Sharma
Basohli	Darshan Singh
Jasrota	Rajiv Jasrotia
Hiranagar	Vijay Kumar Sharma
Ramgarh (SC)	Devinder Kumar Maniyal
Samba	Surjit Singh Slathia
Vijaypur	Chandra Prakash Ganga
Suchetgarh (SC)	Gharu Ram Bhagat
RS Pura-Jammu South	Dr Narinder Singh Raina
Jammu East	Yudhvir Sethi
Nagrota	Devinder Singh Rana
Jammu West	Arvind Gupta
Jammu North	Sham Lal Sharma
Akhnoor (SC)	Mohan Lal Bhagat
Chhamb	Rajeev Sharma

Assembly elections will take place in Jammu and Kashmir in September of this year for the first time since 2014. The elections to 90-seat J&K assembly are taking place in three phases - September 18, September 25 and October 1 - while the counting of votes will take place on October 5.

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The BJP last week said will safeguard reservations granted to backward classes after the abrogation of Article 370. Senior BJP leader Devender Singh Rana said on Saturday as he claimed that the Congress-National Conference alliance would deprive these people of their rights.

He also said any attempt to rename Shankaracharya Hill as "Takht-e-Suleiman" and Hari Parbat as "Koh-e-Maran" would be resisted as "both places are sacred and related to our faith".

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National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Thursday announced a pre-poll alliance with the Congress for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, which is going to the polls for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.

In the last assembly elections held in 2014, when Jammu and Kashmir was a full-fledged state, the BJP had won 25 seats.

The party is going all out with its efforts to take on the challenge from a resurgent Congress, which has tied up with the National Conference, especially in the Jammu region, a BJP bastion since 2014.