Early Times Report
Jammu, July 14: To achieve the target of winning at least three out of five Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir, a senior BJP leader has been asked to start work on the Anantnag Lok Sabha constituency to achieve the task.
Highly placed sources said that BJP leadership has devised a strategy to win the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat this time to mark its presence in Kashmir.
Instead of giving the mandate to the leader from Kashmir to contest this seat, BJP has decided to field Poonch-Rajouri based strong candidate on this seat to play the regional card during the elections.
The senior leader, who is frequently visiting Kashmir, especially in south Kashmir, is a native of the Pir-Panchal belt which is now part of the Anantnag Lok Sabha seat.
As reported earlier by the Early Times BJP leadership is going to field a strong Poonch-Rajouri-based leader on Anantnag seats to win this Parliamentary constituency to create history.
Although BJP had won three Lok Sabha during the 2019 Parliamentary elections from the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, this time Ladakh is a separate Union Territory.
BJP had won Jammu-Poonch, Udhampur-Doda, and Ladakh Lok Sabha Seats in the 2019 elections repeating the performance of the 2014 Parliamentary polls.
“This time Union Home Minister has set a target of improving the tally of the previous two elections”, sources said and added that after the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir BJP has a fair chance of winning Anantnag Lok Sabha seat.
After delimitation boundaries of all five Lok Sabha seats have changed.
The entire Poonch district and areas of Rajouri district have become part of South Kashmir with the creation of the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat.
This has assured parity in the Parliamentary seats with Jammu and Kashmir divisions having two and a half seats each.
The entire Poonch district and Rajouri, Nowshera, and Thanna Mandi Assembly constituencies of Rajouri district are part of the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary seat. Anantnag, Kulgam, and Shopian districts will be part of this seat from South Kashmir.
The Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha Constituency comprises Assembly segments including Zainapura, Damhal Hanjipora, Kulgam, Devsar, Dooru, Larnoo, Anantnag West, Anantnag, Pahalgam, Nowshera, Rajouri, Darhal, Thanna Mandi, Surankote, Poonch and Mendhar. |
