The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released on Monday a revised list of candidates for 15 seats in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections 2024. The new list includes names of candidates for first phase of polling in the Union Territory scheduled to be held on September 18.
As many as 24 seats are voting in phase phase of polling. The list covers seven seats in Kashmir and eight seats in Jammu division of the UT.
“The names for second and third phase of polls carried in an earlier list should not be considered,” the BJP said.
The list comes minutes after the BJP withdrew its first list of 44 candidates for all three phases of voting in the UT.
The prominent names released today include Syed Showkat Andrabi from Pampore, Arshid Bhat from Rajpora, Javed Qadri from Shopian, Syed Wazahat from Anantnag, Salim Bhat from Banihal, Gajay Rana from Doda and Veer Saraf from Shangus-Anantnag East seat.
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Voting will be held in three phases in Jammu and Kashmir beginning from September 18. The two other rounds will be held on September 25 and October 1. Results will be announced on October 4.
Among the total 90 assembly constituencies in the Union Territory, 74 are for the general category, nine are reserved for Scheduled Tribes, and seven are reserved for Scheduled Castes.
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