File photo of a BJP bike rally in Ahmedabad Photo: PTI File photo of a BJP bike rally in Ahmedabad Photo: PTI 
A day after releasing, withdrawing and releasing again names of candidates for the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released more names in the third list of candidates for the polls.
In the third list, BJP has released 29 names of candidates for the Phase 2 and 3 of the Jammu and Kashmir elections 2024.
FULL LIST OF BJP CANDIDATESConstituency - 1st and 2nd ListCandidate Name - - 1st and 2nd ListPamporeEr. Syed Showkat Gayoor AndrabiRajporaArshid BhatShopianJaved Ahmad QadriAnantnag WestMohd Rafiq WaniAnantnagAdv. Syed WazahatSrigufwara-BijbeharaSofi TousufShangus-Anantnag EastVeer SarafInderwalTariq KeenKishtwarShagun PariharPadder-NagseniSunil SharmaBhadarwahDaleep Singh PariharDodaGajay Singh RanaDoda WESTShakti Raj PariharRambanRakesh ThakurBanihalSalim BhatKonkernagChoudhary Roshan Hussain GujjarConstituency - 3rd ListCandidate Name - 3rd ListHabbakadalAshok BhatGulabgarh (ST)Mohammad Akram ChaudharyReasiKuldeep Raj DubeyMata Vaishno DeviBaldev Raj SharmaKalakote-SunderbaniThakur Randhir SinghBudhai (ST)Chowdhury Zulfikar AliThannamandi (ST)Mohd Iqbal MalikSurankote (ST)Syed Mushtaq Ahmad BukhariPoonch HaveliChowdhary Abdul GhaniMendhar (ST)Murtaza KhanUdhampur WestPawan GuptaChenaniBalwant Singh MankotiaRamnagar (SC)Sunil BhardwajBaniJeevan LalBilawarSatish SharmaBasohliDarshan SinghJasrotaRajiv JasrotiaHiranagarAdv Vijay Kumar SharmaRamnagar (SC)Devinder Kumar ManiyalSambaSurjit Singh SlathiaVijaypurChandra Prakash GangaSuchetgarh (SC)Gharu Ram BhagatRS Pura-Jammu SouthNarinder Singh RainaJammu EastYudhvir SethiNagrotaDevinder Singh RanaJammu WestArvind GuptaJammu NorthSham Lal SharmaAkhnoor (SC)Mohan Lal BhagatChhamb Rajeev SharmaDevinder Singh Rana has been fielded from Nagrota.
The BJP on Monday issued two lists naming 16 candidates for the first phase of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections, after retracting an initial list of 44 names following protests by some party cadre who alleged that "parachute candidates" were favoured over dedicated workers.
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The original list, which included candidates for 36 segments in the Jammu region and eight in the Kashmir Valley, sparked significant dissatisfaction among party workers.
A group of disgruntled members protested at the BJP headquarters in Jammu.
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While Jammu and Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina attempted to downplay the discontent, the protests highlighted a growing rift within the party ranks.
Assembly elections will take place in Jammu and Kashmir in September of this year for the first time since 2014. The elections to 90-seat J&K assembly are taking place in three phases - September 18queen9play, September 25 and October 1 - while the counting of votes will take place on October 5.