BJP's plan for Jammu and Kashmir elections is ready! Know on how many seats will it contest, what is the strategy? | News India

Jammu Kashmir Elections 2024: Assembly elections are going to be held in Jammu and Kashmir, after the meeting of the Central Election Committee (CEC) of the Bharatiya Janata Party, sources told the media that the party will win about 60 to 70 seats in the upcoming elections. Elections for the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly can be fought in three phases. In which BJP is going to fight the assembly elections after about a decade without forming an alliance with any party.

BJP will support independent candidates

According to sources, top BJP leaders like JP Nadda attended the meeting chaired by PM Modi. In which the party has also decided to withdraw the candidature of many prominent people from the Jammu region. Apart from this, the party will support strong independent candidates without fielding its own candidates in those constituencies of the Kashmir Valley. In the last assembly elections held in 2014, the BJP and the People's Democratic Party (PDP) formed a coalition government, in which Mufti Mohammad Sayeed became the Chief Minister. After Sayeed's death in January 2016, Mehbooba Mufti succeeded her father after a brief governorship.

In June 2018, the BJP walked out of the PDP-led coalition government, leading to the dissolution of the assembly by then governor Satya Pal Malik in November of the same year. Assembly elections were not held in Jammu and Kashmir after this.

Meanwhile, the National Conference (NC), BJP's biggest rival in Jammu and Kashmir, has formed an alliance with the Congress, contesting all 90 seats. Sources had earlier said that the Congress had expressed its willingness to contest 12 seats in the Kashmir Valley, while Farooq Abdullah's party was offered the same number of seats in the Jammu division.

This will be the first assembly election after the removal of Article 370

Elections for the 90 assembly seats of Jammu and Kashmir will be held in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. The results are expected to be declared on October 4. This will be the first assembly election in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 and division into union territories – Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.