Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: Full list of BJP candidates for Phase 1

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday released its first list of 44 candidates for the elections to the 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly. However, it withdrew this list and issued a revised one, naming candidates for 15 constituencies going to polls in Phase-1. The saffron party, which has marginal presence in the Valley, has chosen to field its candidates for a few seats in Kashmir, including Pampore, Shopian, Anantnag West and Anantnag. 
 

BJP: Full List of Candidates for J&K Assembly Elections 2024 

Pampore: Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi
Rajpora: Arshid Bhat
Shopian: Javed Ahmed Qadri
Anantnag West: Mohd Rafiq Wani
Anantnag: Syed Wazahat
Srigufwara-Bijbehara: Sofi Yousuf
Shangus-Anantnag East: Veer saraf
Inderwal: Tariq Keen
Kishtwar: Shagun Parihar 
Padder-Nagseni: Sunil Sharma
Bhadarwah: Daleep Singh Parihar
Doda: Gajay Singh Rana
Doda West: Shkati Raj Parihar
Ramban: Rakesh Thakur
Banihal: Salim Bhat

The BJP's Central Election Committee had met on Sunday evening to finalise the party's candidates for the polls. Jammu and Kashmir is going to polls in three phases on September 18, 25 and October 1. The 90-member assembly of Haryana will go to polls on October 1. The counting of votes is scheduled for October 4.

In the last assembly elections in 2014, the BJP had won 25 seats. The party is making all out efforts to fend off the challenge from a resurgent Congress, which has tied up with the National Conference, especially in the Jammu region, a BJP bastion since 2014.