Jammu & Kashmir : The BJP will hold an executive meeting with its Jammu and Kashmir unit on July 6, chaired by Union Minister J.P. Nadda, who is set to arrive in Jammu city later in the day. The meeting, to be held in Jammu, will be attended by G. Kishan Reddy, BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh, BJP’s J-K election co-incharge Ashish Sood, and Union Minister Jitendra Singh.
Ahead of the meeting, G. Kishan Reddy spoke to reporters in Jammu, stating, “We are conducting a review after the Lok Sabha elections. We formed the government for the third time. We will discuss the upcoming programs of the BJP in Jammu and Kashmir.”
He added, “The National President, J.P. Nadda, will come and prepare a roadmap for the upcoming 3-4 months. We will also take feedback from the party workers.” Reddy emphasized that there has been a positive environment in Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370. “After the abrogation of Article 370, there is a positive environment and peace here. Because of this, we are sure that support for the BJP will increase in the coming time,” he said.
Tarun Chugh highlighted the importance of the State Working Committee meetings taking place across the country. “BJP National President J.P. Nadda is going to attend the meeting here. It is because of the party workers that the BJP has formed the government for the third time,” he said.
Regarding the Assembly elections likely to be held in Jammu and Kashmir by the end of September, as per the Supreme Court’s timeline, Chugh remarked, “It is the Election Commission’s job to announce the elections. The BJP has always guarded democracy. The BJP is a worker-based party; we discuss and move forward together.”
Jammu and Kashmir are expected to see their first Assembly election in September this year, following the Supreme Court’s timeline 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, bifurcating the state into two union territories. There have been demands from political parties for early assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and the restoration of statehood. Previously, the Supreme Court had asked the Election Commission of India and the Centre to conduct polls by September.
