NEW DELHI/JAMMU: BJP‘s marketing campaign for J&Okay elections acquired off to an ungainly begin with the get together having to prune the listing of its candidates after protests over picks and omissions.
The get together had launched a listing of 44 candidates for the three-phase election to 90 meeting seats in J&Okay, however withdrew it after a couple of minutes to come back out with a shortened listing of 15 names just for the seats which go to polls first within the three-phase polls on Sep 18.
Quickly, protests erupted over the absence of key names like these of state BJP chief Ravinder Raina, former deputy CM Nirmal Singh, former speaker Kavinder Gupta and Sat Paul Sharma, additionally a former state president, who had received in 2014 from Jammu West seat, resulting in retracing of steps.
Within the now-withdrawn listing, Satish Sharma was named the candidate for Jammu’s Billawar constituency rather than Nirmal Singh who had received the seat in 2014. Equally, the withdrawn listing had Narender Singh Rana because the candidate for RS Pora-Jammu South (it was referred to as Gandhi Nagar earlier than delimitation) rather than Kavinder Gupta, who received the seat in 2014 defeating Congress’s Raman Bhalla.
The listing additionally had Arvind Gupta rather than Sat Paul Sharma from Jammu West.
State chief Raina had received from Nowshera in Rajouri district in 2014 however was not retained within the seat, although sources stated he may be fielded from one of many Jammu seats.
Among the many new entrants who figured within the withdrawn listing had been Devender Singh Rana, former Nationwide Convention (NC) chief and brother of Union minister of state Jitendra Singh; ex-Congress minister Shyam Lal Sharma; and former NC minister S S Salathia.
The withdrawn listing had Rana as BJP candidate from Nagrota in Jammu, a seat he received in 2014 on the NC ticket; Sharma from Jammu North; and Salathia from Samba.
“The earlier listing was launched by mistake as just a few rounds of discussions are but to happen. Furthermore, the listing shall be launched phase-wise, which has been the apply the get together has adopted,” a BJP functionary stated.
The get together had launched a listing of 44 candidates for the three-phase election to 90 meeting seats in J&Okay, however withdrew it after a couple of minutes to come back out with a shortened listing of 15 names just for the seats which go to polls first within the three-phase polls on Sep 18.
Quickly, protests erupted over the absence of key names like these of state BJP chief Ravinder Raina, former deputy CM Nirmal Singh, former speaker Kavinder Gupta and Sat Paul Sharma, additionally a former state president, who had received in 2014 from Jammu West seat, resulting in retracing of steps.
Within the now-withdrawn listing, Satish Sharma was named the candidate for Jammu’s Billawar constituency rather than Nirmal Singh who had received the seat in 2014. Equally, the withdrawn listing had Narender Singh Rana because the candidate for RS Pora-Jammu South (it was referred to as Gandhi Nagar earlier than delimitation) rather than Kavinder Gupta, who received the seat in 2014 defeating Congress’s Raman Bhalla.
The listing additionally had Arvind Gupta rather than Sat Paul Sharma from Jammu West.
State chief Raina had received from Nowshera in Rajouri district in 2014 however was not retained within the seat, although sources stated he may be fielded from one of many Jammu seats.
Among the many new entrants who figured within the withdrawn listing had been Devender Singh Rana, former Nationwide Convention (NC) chief and brother of Union minister of state Jitendra Singh; ex-Congress minister Shyam Lal Sharma; and former NC minister S S Salathia.
The withdrawn listing had Rana as BJP candidate from Nagrota in Jammu, a seat he received in 2014 on the NC ticket; Sharma from Jammu North; and Salathia from Samba.
“The earlier listing was launched by mistake as just a few rounds of discussions are but to happen. Furthermore, the listing shall be launched phase-wise, which has been the apply the get together has adopted,” a BJP functionary stated.
