- विज्ञापन -
Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a key meeting of the BJP Jammu and Kashmir. Several Bharatiya Janata Party leaders attended the meeting held in the national capital on Thursday.
BJP leader Devinder Kumar Maniyal after attending the meet said, “J&K is a UT and is directly under the MHA. Home Minister holds such meetings quarterly after two months. It was a meeting mainly about the parliamentary elections that have just taken place. We gave detailed information on the entire election…We will contest on all 90 seats in the upcoming elections…”
Notably, J&K is likely to see its first Assembly election in September this year, according to the timeline fixed by the Supreme Court after the erstwhile State’s special status was scrapped in 2019. The last Assembly election in the erstwhile State was held in 2014.
The BJP-led government scrapped Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 and bifurcated the state into two union territories. There have been demands from political parties for early assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and restoration of statehood.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had asked the Election Commission of India and the Centre to conduct polls by September.
