BJP hopeful of winning over 50 seats in next J&K elections
The Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) on Sunday said it is hopeful to win more than 50 assembly seats in the next elections and form a government on its own in Jammu and Kashmir. The statement by the party came following the Urban Local Bodies (ULB) election results in the state.
The BJP swept the Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) elections and made some advances in Kashmir, by winning 100 wards in the Valley, in the four-phased ULB elections in the state that were marred by boycott by the NC and PDP.
A two-member team of senior leaders is visiting Ladakh on Monday to look into the reasons for the poor performance of the party in the region and take appropriate steps for "course correction" to win the electorate of the region, said BJP state president Ravinder Raina on Sunday.
"The BJP got thumping majority in Jammu and the graph of the party is increasing in Kashmir where we were not getting a worker to lift the party flag sometime back. The performance in Kashmir is a big achievement for us as the party won 106 municipal wards there,” he said.
"We have full faith the party will sweep the upcoming parliamentary elections. In the last assembly elections, our mission was 44 plus seats but next time when the assembly elections will be held, we will achieve our mission of 50 plus seats (out of a total of 87 seats up for grabs) and will form the government on our own and the chief minister will be from our party," said the BJP leader.
Raina also lauded the security forces for back-to-back success against terrorists and said like prime minister's slogan of "Congress-free India," the mission of "terrorism-free Jammu and Kashmir" would be achieved to usher peace, prosperity and development in the state.
Raina said the successful conclusion of the ULB elections was the victory of democracy and the nation.
"Eight Independents who have registered their victory in the JMC have returned to the party fold taking the number of our seats to over 50," Raina said.
On the failure of the BJP to open its account in the two municipal committees of Leh and Kargil in Ladakh region, the BJP leader said, "We did not have the results as per our expectations there".
