| Mission 2024: Amit Shah sets target to win 4 LS seats from J&K, Ladakh | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 25: Union Home Minister Amit Shah has reportedly asked BJP leaders to start preparations for the forthcoming Parliamentary elections to win at least three Lok Sabha seats from J&K and one from Ladakh.
Highly placed sources said that Union Home Minister has set a target of winning three out of five Lok Sabha seats from J&K to improve its tally of the 2019 Parliamentary elections.
Sources said that party leadership is mulling over the idea of fielding a strong Poonch-Rajouri-based leader on Anantnag seat to win this Parliamentary constituency to create a history.
Although BJP had won three Lok Sabha during the 2019 Parliamentary elections from the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, this time Ladakh is a separate Union Territory.
BJP had won Jammu-Poonch, Udhampur-Doda, and Ladakh Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 elections repeating the performance of the 2014 Parliamentary polls.
“This time Union Home Minister has set a target of improving the tally of the previous two elections”, sources said and added that after the delimitation of Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and Kashmir BJP has a fair chance of winning Anantnag Lok Sabha seat.
After delimitation boundaries of all five Lok Sabha seats have changed. The entire Poonch and Rajouri districts have become part of South Kashmir with the creation of the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. This has assured parity in the Parliamentary seats between Jammu and Kashmir divisions having two and a half seats each.
The entire Poonch district and Rajouri, Nowshera, and Thanna Mandi Assembly constituencies of Rajouri district are part of the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary seat.
Anantnag, Kulgam, and Shopian districts will be part of this seat from South Kashmir.
The Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha constituency comprises assembly segments including Zainapura, Damhal Hanjipora, Kulgam, Devsar, Dooru, Larnoo, Anantnag West, Anantnag, Pahalgam, Nowshera, Rajouri, Darhal, Thanna Mandi, Surankote, Poonch and Mendhar.
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