Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: Notwithstanding guarded silence maintained by the party leaders, BJP has unofficially declared support to the Apni Party candidates for Anantnag-Rajouri and Srinagar Lok Sabha seats, and the Peoples Conference candidate for Baramulla Parliamentary.
Zaffar Iqbal Manhas and Mohammad Ashraf Mir are the Apni Party candidates for the Anantnag-Rajouri and Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha seats.
Peoples’ Conference chief and former minister Sajad Gani Lone is the party’s candidate for north Kashmir’s Baramulla seat where he is fighting against former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Highly placed sources said that instead of making any official statement party leadership has decided to trickle down this message through booth-level workers.
“Senior leaders would only focus their attacks on the National Conference, Congress, and the Peoples Democratic Party leaders while BJP has unofficially declared support to the Apni Party candidates for Anantnag-Rajouri and Srinagar Lok Sabha seats, and the PC candidate for Baramulla Parliamentary.
Instead of making any official statement party leadership has decided to trickle down this message through booth-level workers.
Grassroots level workers have been asked to coordinate with the Apni Party workers to ensure a smooth transfer of BJP votes.
BJP workers in Delhi are in touch with the Kashmiri migrants living in the National Capital.
“Without publicity coordination teams of Apni Party and BJP would be constituted within a day for the Srinagar-Budgam Lok Sabha constituency to coordinate polling”, sources said and added that already special teams have been constituted by the BJP to ask Kashmir migrants votes of Srinagar Parliamentary seat to vote for Apni Party candidate Mohammad Ashraf Mir.
As per data shared by the election department number of Kashmiri migrant voters in the Srinagar Parliamentary constituency is 52,100 which is the deciding factor.
“BJP leaders have been asked to ensure maximum polling of these 52100 votes in favour of Apni Party candidate Ashraf Mir”, sources said and added that BJP workers in Delhi are in touch with the Kashmiri migrants living in the Union capital. | 