The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Sunday, announced three candidates for the vacant Rajya Sabha seats from Jammu and Kashmir. The saffron party will fight for three out of the four RS seats from the union territory. The polls will be held on October 24.
Earlier, the Election Commission of India (ECI) had announced polls for the four Rajya Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir on September 24 after more than four years because the UT did not have a Legislative Assembly after February 2021.
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BJP has decided to field its UT president, Sat Pal Sharma, and leaders Rakesh Mahajan and Ghulam Mohammed Mir.
As per IANS, of the four Rajya Sabha seats, the party has an edge on the fourth seat for which the part