The Bharatiya Janata Party has released the sixth list of candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections. Six candidates have been included in this list, out of which five are Muslims. The BJP has nominated Mohammad Idris Karnahi from Karnah, Ghulam Mohammad Mir from Handwara, Abdul Rashid Khan from Sonawari, Naseer Ahmed Lone from Bandipora, Fakir Mohammad Khan from Garej (ST) and RS Pathania from Udhampur East.
The BJP has so far announced candidates for 57 seats. Out of these, Muslims have been given tickets on about 24 seats. Most of the seats on which BJP has fielded Muslims as candidates are located in the valley.
The BJP’s election campaign for Jammu and Kashmir got off to a difficult start when it withdrew its first list of 44 candidates just hours after it was released. This move was taken due to protests from party workers. They were feeling sidelined due to the inclusion of new people in the party. After this, the BJP had to release a revised list.
Complete list of BJP candidates so far
Pampore – Engineer Syed Shaukat Ghayur Andrabi
Rajpora – Arshid Bhatt
Shopian – Javed Ahmad Qadri
Anantnag West – Mohammad Rafiq Wani
Anantnag – Advocate Syed Wajahat
Srigufwara-Bijbehara – Sofi Yousuf
Shangus-Anantnag East – Veer Saraf
Inderwal-Tariq Keane
Kishtwar- Shagun Parihar
Padder-Nagseni – Sunil Sharma
Bhaderwah – Dalip Singh Parihar
Doda – Gajay Singh Rana
Doda West – Shakti Raj Parihar
Ramban-Rakesh Thakur
Banihal – Salim Bhatt
Kokernag – Choudhary Roshan Hussain Gujjar
Habbakadal-Ashok Bhatt
Gulabgarh (ST)- Mohammad Akram Choudhary
Reasi- Kuldeep Raj Dubey
Mata Vaishno Devi – Baldev Raj Sharma
Kalakote-Sundarbani – Thakur Randhir Singh
Budhal (ST) – Chowdhary Zulfiqar Ali
Thannamandi (ST) – Md. Iqbal Malik
Surankot (ST) – Syed Mushtaq Ahmed Bukhari
Poonch Haveli – Chaudhry Abdul Ghani
Mendhar (ST) – Murtaza Khan
Udhampur West – Pawan Gupta
Chenani – Balwant Singh Mankotia
Ramnagar (SC) – Sunil Bharadwaj
Bani- Jeevan Lal
Billawar- Satish Sharma
Basohli – Darshan Singh
Jasrota – Rajiv Jasrotia
Hira Nagar – Advocate Vijay Kumar Sharma
Ramgarh (SC)- Dr. Devinder Kumar Maniyal
Samba – Surjit Singh Salathia
Vijaypur-Chandra Prakash Ganga
Suchetgarh (SC) – Gharu Ram Bhagat
R.S. Pura-Jammu South – Dr. Narinder Singh Raina
Jammu East – Yudhvir Sethi
Nagrota – Dr. Devinder Singh Rana
Jammu West-Arvind Gupta
Jammu North – Sham Lal Sharma
Akhnoor (SC) – Mohan Lal Bhagat
Chhamb-Rajeev Sharma
Lal Chowk – Engr. Aijaz Hussain
Eidgah – Arif Raja
Khansaheb- Dr. Ali Mohammad Mir
Charar-e-Shareef – Zahid Hussain
Nowshera – Ravinder Raina
Rajouri (ST)- Vibodh Gupta
Channapora – Hilal Ahmed Wani
Karnah- Md. Idris Karnah
Handwara- Ghulam Mohammad Mir
Sonawari- Abdul Rashid Khan
Bandipora – Naseer Ahmad Lone
Garej (ST)- Fakir Mohammad Khan
Udhampur East – RS Pathania
Let us tell you that there are 90 assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir. Out of these, 7 seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and 9 for Scheduled Tribes (ST). In the last assembly elections, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had won 28 seats. BJP had won 25, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) had won 15 and Congress had won 12 seats.
Jammu and Kashmir will vote in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1, with the results to be declared on October 8. The Congress has formed an alliance with the National Conference to contest the elections here.
