The BJP on Saturday decided to contest all four Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir that are lying vacant since February 2021. The election for these seats is scheduled for election on October 24, a year after the Assembly polls in J&K.

The core committee of the party, which met here today, is learnt to have prepared a panel of four, including Sat Sharma, Dr. Nirmal Singh, Ravinder Raina and Sunil Sethi, for contesting the polls.

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Sharma is president of the J&K unit of BJP, while Singh is a former deputy chief minister. Raina lost the Assembly elections against the National Conference candidate Surinder Choudhary who is now the deputy CM of J&K. Sethi is the chief spokesman of the BJP in J&K.

With its strength of 28 in the 90 member Assembly, the BJP can win only one

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