BJP names J&K unit chief Raina in 4th list

BJP on Monday released its fourth list of candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly polls, fielding its J&K unit president Ravinder Raina from Nowshera in Rajouri district of Jammu region. With the fresh list, the party has so far named 51 candidates, including 14 in the Kashmir Valley, where BJP is yet to open its account in assembly elections. Raina had won from Nowshera in the 2014 polls.

The other names in the list are former MLC Vibodh Gupta from Rajouri (ST) in the Jammu region; and Aijaz Hussain (Lal Chowk), Arif Raja (Eidgah), Ali Mohammad Mir (Khansahib) and Zahid Hussain (Charar-e-Sharif) from the Kashmir Valley.


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