 Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 30: The statement of the president of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP Ravinder Raina on the selection of candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections has raised many eyebrows.
Instead of clearly mentioning that both the sitting Lok Sabha members from two Parliamentary seats of Jammu province would be repeated, Ravinder Raina on Tuesday said that process of the selecting candidates was going on.
“In BJP we have a proper system to select candidates. Process to shortlist candidates was started a month ago”, Raina said when a report asked about candidates for the coming Lok Sabha elections. Raina said that process of shortlisting candidates was started at the Mandal level and final decision will be taken by the Parliamentary Board of the party.
“The process is going on. The State Election Committee would shortlist candidates and same would be forwarded to the central body”, he said.
Notable the Early Times in its earlier edition has reported that th "In BJP we have a proper system to select candidates. Process to shortlist candidates was started a month ago. Exercise is going on. The SEC would shortlist candidates and same would be forwarded to the central body”,
During the first State Election Committee meeting held last week, it was decided to constitute panels for each Lok Sabha segment in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
Sources said that the panel would be constituted for the Parliamentary seats which BJP has won in two successive Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019.
In the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections BJP won three Parliamentary seats namely Jammu-Poonch, Udhampur-Doda, and Ladakh.
Except for Ladakh where the party fielded a young leader Jamyang Tsering Namgyal in place of a veteran politician Thupstan Chewang, the BJP had repeated its candidates on Jammu-Poonch and Udhampur-Doda Lok Sabha seats.
Sources said that the final decision of the candidates will be taken by the Parliamentary Board of the party but as a custom of the party local unit has to submit a panel of three candidates for each Lok Sabha constituency. | 