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.
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 In both the withdrawn and the fresh list released by BJP, the party fielded Arshid Bhat from Rajpora, Javed Ahmad Qadri from Shopian, and Mohd.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.
Hours after the revised first list, the BJP released the name for another seat - Konkernag.
| 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 |
| 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.
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.
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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.