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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will boost the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections with three rallies next week.
According to reports, Modi may address two rallies in Jammu and one in Kashmir. The Prime Minister is likely to visit the Union Territory (UT) after September 8.
Voting to elect 90 members of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will be held in three phases on September 18, 25 and October 1. This will be the first assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir in ten years. The results will be declared on October 8.
One of the three scheduled rallies will be held in Doda in the Jammu region, where several terror attacks have taken place recently. The BJP hopes to win at least 35 of the 43 seats in the Jammu region and thus emerge as a key player in forming the government.
In the last assembly elections held in Jammu and Kashmir in 2014, the BJP was able to win 25 seats in Jammu. The saffron party failed to open its account in Kashmir. After delimitation, the Kashmir region of the Union Territory has 47 seats.
BJP did not field its candidates on all three seats in Kashmir in the Lok Sabha elections, but it won both the seats in Jammu. So far, BJP has released the names of 51 candidates in its four lists for the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
The BJP hopes to win at least 35 of the 43 seats in the Jammu region and emerge as the key player in government formation.
Modi’s visit to the Union Territory comes amid reports of discontent within the BJP over ticket distribution. The party is also facing resentment in the Kashmir division ahead of the assembly elections. According to a report, party leaders in the Kashmir Valley are unhappy with the leadership for fielding candidates in only eight of the sixteen seats that will vote in the first phase.
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