Amit Shah holds meeting with J&K BJP leaders

26-08-2022 : Amit Shah, Home Minister and BJP leader on Friday held a meeting with the party’s core group members from Jammu and Kashmir here. Sources said organizational issues and the political situation in the Union territory were discussed in the meeting.

BJP Jammu and Kashmir president Ravinder Raina and other senior party leaders, including Union minister Jitendra Singh, Devender Singh Rana, MP Jugal Kishore and Shakti Raj Parihar, attended the meeting. BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh, who is in charge of the party’s affairs in the Union territory, and co-incharge Ashish Sood, also attended the meeting.

The meeting came on a day senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir, quit the party. However, BJP sources added the leaders’ meeting with Shah was pre-scheduled. BJP leaders said the political situation and the party’s organizational affairs following the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir came up for discussion.

Lieutenant Governor  Jammu and Kashmir  Manoj Sinha also held a meeting with Shah on Friday. There is a view that assembly elections in the Union territory could be held after the completion of the ongoing electoral roll revision exercise as per media report.