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New Delhi: The Jammu & Kashmir unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has recommended to the Election Commission of India (ECI) that Lok Sabha and assembly elections be held simultaneously in the Union Territory, ThePrint has learnt...
R.S. Pathania, who was part of the BJP team that met Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar earlier this week, told ThePrint: We have submitted that BJP is ready for simultaneous polls..
Former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah had told reporters in Srinagar Monday that it would be unfair to the people of J&K if elections to the assembly are not held along with the Lok Sabha polls to save the BJP...
Prime Minister Narendra Modis visit to Kashmir earlier this month, the first since the abrogation of Article 370, just ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, coupled with his remarks main yahan dil jeetne aaya hun (I have come here to win hearts) had led to speculation that Modi was signalling party workers to gear up for simultaneous polls in J&K...
A BJP leader who has served as a minister in J&K added, In the Lok Sabha elections, the Centre has to provide security only to 25-30 candidates who are contesting the polls but in the case of simultaneous elections, security cover will also have to be given to more than 500 candidates contesting the assembly polls, besides those in the fray for parliamentary seats...
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