April 02
Shabir Khan
Two days after, Bhartiya Janta Party had its embarrassing moment on Sunday Rally in Rohama area of Rafiabad when less than eighty people visited the rally, BJP faced yet another embarrassment as less nearly 55 people attended its ‘Grand Rally’ in Watlab area of North Kashmir’s Sopore
Sources informed The Kashmiriyat that BJP on Tuesday had called for a rally in the Watlab area wherein, the BJP state General Secretary, Ashok Koul, Mohammed Maqbool War, who is contesting the North Kashmir seat from Baramulla Lok Sabha Seat addressed the people.
Ashok Koul addressing these 53 people said that Omar Abdullah must take back his words and leave the dream of having a pre-53 position. “They are showing empty dreams to Kashmiris,” Ashok Koul in his key note address said.
The Kashmiriyat was informed that besides party leaders, the family members and few relatives of Bhartiya Janta Party Leaders participated in the rally, which had been pre-announced in almost all the major areas of North Kashmir.
BJP, which formed a Government in Jammu Kashmir by joining aligning with PDP, which had won majority of seats in an Anti National Conference wave in the Kashmir valley in 2014 is contesting all the three Lok Sabha seats in the Kashmir valley.
Jammu Kashmir has a total of 6 seats, Kashmir has a total of three Lok Sabha seats, Baramulla, Anantnag and Srinagar, the polls in South Kashmir’s seat, Anantnag will be held in three different phases. Officials told The Kashmiriyat that they are expecting a tough job for voting staff and the election officials in this Lok Sabha seat of Anantnag.
While Anantnag will go to polls on April 23, under the third phase, Kulgam will vote during the 4th phase, on April 29. The elections for the twin districts of Pulwama and Shopian will be held under 5th phase, on May 6.
Baramulla seat comprising of Bandipora, Baramulla and Kupwara districts in North Kashmir goes to the polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha election on 11 April. The constituency as per Election commission has 13,12,148 voters and 1,749 polling stations.