The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released a list of 44 candidates for the upcoming Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections Photo: PTI/File The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released a list of 44 candidates for the upcoming Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections Photo: PTI/File 
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday withdrew its first list of 44 candidates for the upcoming Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections and released a fresh list with 15 names. In both the withdrawn and the fresh list released by BJP, the party fielded Arshid Bhat from Rajpora, Javed Ahmad Qadri from Shopiangppbet, and Mohd. Rafiq Wani from Anantnag West.
Adv. Syed Wazahat has been fielded from Anantnag, Shagun Parihar from Kishtwar, and Gajay Singh Rana from Doda, as per the BJP list.
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Hours after the revised first list, the BJP released the name for another seat - Konkernag.
Revised 1st, 2nd List BJP Of Candidates For J&K Polls | All Names Constituency Candidate Name PamporeEr. 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Singh RanaDoda WESTShakti Raj PariharRambanRakesh ThakurBanihalSalim BhatKonkernagChoudhary Roshan Hussain Gujjar Withdrawn List Of BJP CandidatesConstituencyCandidate NamePamporeEr. 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 BhatHabbakadalAshok BhatGulabgarh (ST)Mohammad Akram ChaudharyReasiKuldeep Raj DubeyMata Vaishno DeviRohit DubeyKalakote-SunderbaniThakur Randhir SinghBudhal (ST)Chowdhary Zulfikar AliThannamandi (ST)Mohd Iqbal MalikSurankote (ST)Syed Mushtaq Ahmad BukhariPoonch HaveliChowdhary Abdul GhaniMendhar (ST)Murtaza KhanUdhampur WestPawan GuptaChenaniBalwant Singh MankotiaRamnagar (SC)Sunil BhardwajBaniJeevan LalBillawarSatish SharmaBasohliDarshan SinghJasrotaRajiv JasrotiaHiranagarVijay Kumar SharmaRamgarh (SC)Devinder Kumar ManiyalSambaSurjit Singh SlathiaVijaypurChandra Prakash GangaSuchetgarh (SC)Gharu Ram BhagatRS Pura-Jammu SouthDr Narinder Singh RainaJammu EastYudhvir SethiNagrotaDevinder Singh RanaJammu WestArvind GuptaJammu NorthSham Lal SharmaAkhnoor (SC)Mohan Lal BhagatChhambRajeev SharmaAssembly 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 18, September 25 and October 1 - while the counting of votes will take place on October 5.
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The BJP last week said will safeguard reservations granted to backward classes after the abrogation of Article 370. Senior BJP leader Devender Singh Rana said on Saturday as he claimed that the Congress-National Conference alliance would deprive these people of their rights.
He also said any attempt to rename Shankaracharya Hill as "Takht-e-Suleiman" and Hari Parbat as "Koh-e-Maran" would be resisted as "both places are sacred and related to our faith".
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National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Thursday announced a pre-poll alliance with the Congress for the assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, which is going to the polls for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.
In the last assembly elections held in 2014, when Jammu and Kashmir was a full-fledged state, the BJP had won 25 seats.
The party is going all out with its efforts to take on the challenge from a resurgent Congress, which has tied up with the National Conference, especially in the Jammu regiongppbet, a BJP bastion since 2014.