BDC Polls: BJP announces list, to contest on 280 seats in Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh
Jammu, Oct 5 (UNI) Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday decided to contest 280 out of 316 Block Development Council (BDC) seats in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, elections of which are to be held on October 24.
The last date of filing the nominations is October 9.
BJP State President Ravinder Raina flanked by MP Jugal Kishore Sharma and former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta released the list of candidates for the upcoming election.
Mr Raina extended gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for fulfilling the commitment by empowering the Panchayati Raj system in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
He said that with the elections of BDC seats in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh; Panchayati Raj system has become powerful and now the elected representatives will get more powers to do justice with common masses in the rural areas.
Mr Raina, said that the successive Congress, NC, PDP governments in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh kept the Panches and Sarpanches as their slaves by not empowering them and the all the credit goes to PM Modi and Union Minister Shah for doing justice with Panchs and Sarpanchs of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
He said that holding BDC election and then DDC is a landmark decision in the history of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
“To finalize the candidates of 280 BDC seats, senior leaders alongwith District Presidents and Block Presidents of BJP worked hard to prepare the panels for various BDC seats in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh,” he added and said that on some of the seats out of 280 seats where BJP will contest, some of the candidates are yet to be finalized and those seats are kept pending and the decision will be made in next 2 to 3 days.
For majority of BDC seats in Jammu region, candidates are already finalized and candidates for Kashmir valley and Ladakh region will be announced by the respective District Presidents of BJP, Mr Raina added and requested Panches and Sarpanches, especially to all those who were in the panel for BDC seats but not got mandate, to vote in favour of BJP candidates, so that the development of their respective areas will be done with all sincerity and transparency.
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