The Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday announced Devyani Rana — daughter of late Nagrota MLA Devender Singh Rana — and Aga Syed Mohsin, a Shia Muslim leader from Kashmir, as its candidates for the upcoming assembly by-elections in Nagrota and Budgam constituencies of Jammu & Kashmir.

Devyani Rana, who entered active politics after her father’s death in October last year, was appointed the J&K vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in January.

A niece of Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr Jitendra Singh, Rana holds a degree in economics from the University of California. The eldest of three siblings — two sisters and a brother — she is a businesswoman who had been managing her father’s business even before his death. Since then, she has made regular visits

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