Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Jammu and Kashmir twice to campaign for BJP candidates in the upcoming assembly elections. PM Modi's first visit to Jammu is scheduled for September 14, followed by his second visit to Jammu and Kashmir on September 19.
PM Modi rally in Jammu
As per the reports, the Prime Minister will be on a day-long visit to Jammu on 14 September. He will address two election rallies in the Jammu region, including one in the Doda district.
The BJP is contesting all the seats in the Jammu region, aiming to replicate its success from 2014, when it won 25 out of 37 seats. In the 2014 Assembly elections, the Doda region had six constituencies, with the BJP securing four of them, while the Congress won the remaining two. Both the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and National Conference failed to win any seats in the region.
At the September 19 rally, the Prime Minister is expected to focus on the second phase of constituencies in Rajouri, Poonch, and Reasi districts, where voting is scheduled for September 25.
Jammu and Kashmir polls
Jammu and Kashmir will go to Assembly Elections on September 18, 25, and October 1. The results of the polls will be out on October 8. Significantly, the 2024 polls will be the first elections in the valley since provisions of Article 370 of the Constitution were abrogated and the erstwhile state was divided into two Union Territories in 2019.
In the last assembly elections in 2014, the BJP had won 25 seats ands this time, it is making all-out efforts to fend off the challenge from a resurgent Congress, which has made alliance with the National Conference.
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