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. Union Territories (UT) admission will be allowed after September 8.
Voting continues for the election of 90 members of Jammu and Kashmir AssemblyThe event will be held in three phases Voting will be held on September 18, September 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 could not even open its account in Kashmir. After delimitation, The Kashmir region of the Union Territory has 47 seats.
The 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. The BJP has so far 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 resentment within the BJP over ticket distribution. The party is also facing resentment in the Kashmir division ahead of the assembly elections.Party leaders in Kashmir Valley are unhappy with the leadership According to a report, the BJP has put pressure on the Centre to field candidates in only eight of the sixteen seats going to polls in the first phase in the Kashmir Valley.
