The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced 29 more candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, bringing the total number of seats for which nominees have been revealed to 45.
Devender Singh Rana will contest from Nagrota, while Satish Sharma has been named for Billawar, a seat previously held by former Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh in the 2014 assembly elections.
The party made a single adjustment to its previous candidate list, which was released and then rescinded on Monday. Baldev Raj Sharma will now contest from Shri Mata Vaishno Devi instead of Rohit Dubey.
All other candidate names remain unchanged from the list announced the day before. The new list includes 10 candidates for the second phase of polling and 19 for the third phase.
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The BJP has yet to announce nominees for Nowshera, formerly represented by current state president Ravinder Raina, and Gandhinagar, which was held by former Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta in the last elections.
The 90-member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly will hold elections in three phases on September 18, September 25, and October 1.