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| BJP takes lid off: Leela, Nirmal LS nominees | | Intense race in Congress; Lal, Jugal, Chib vie for Udhampur, Madan safe | | Early Times Report
Jammu, March 19: Taking lid off the much stressed suspense, the Bhartiya Janta Party today declared names of its nominees for two Lok Sabha seats of Jammu Division.
BJP’s Central Election Committee today cleared the names of Leela Karan Sharma for Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha constituency and Dr Nirmal Singh for Kathua-Udhampur-Doda constituency. Both candidates were felicitated here at the BJP heaquarters by the party activists.
Leela Karan Sharma recently resigned as convener of the Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangharsh Samiti which had spearheaded two-month long agitation on Amarnath land row in Jammu during July-August last year. Dr Nirmal Singh, who recently lost Assembly elections in Gandhi Nagar constituency, will be contesting Lok Sabha election for third time. He had earlier unsuccessfully contested 2001 by-elections and 2004 general elections on Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha constituency.
Jammu and Kashmir has four Lok Sabha constituencies in all and Jammu division has only two of them. Both constituencies were held by the Congress in the outgoing Lok Sabha. It was in 2001 when BJP lost the Jammu-Poonch seat to National Conference and could not win back in 2004 elections. Udhampur-Doda constituency, where Prof Chaman Lal Gupta won twice, was lost by BJP to Congress in 2004 general elections.
Meanwhile, the Congress party will soon declare their candidates from the two parliamentary constituencies from Jammu region but still an atmosphere of uncertainty prevails over the candidature of the persons. Many top rung leaders from the state Congress Party are presently camping in New Delhi to make sure that their favourite one should get ticket for the coming Lok Sabha elections which are scheduled to be held between April and May months of this year. As per the sources Madan Lal Sharma the present Lok Sabha Jammu Poonch constituency is almost certain to get the mandate again from the same constituency as no other probable candidate in the Congress party take it to the final. No doubt, there are many contenders but as per the sources they were unable to compete the candidature of Madan Lal Sharma. On Udhampur-Doda -Kathua constituency, many names from the Congress party are in the front runner which include present member parliament Choudhary Lal Singh, who is the favourite candidate inspite of his debacle in the recent assembly elections from Kathua assembly segment. Other aspirant is R S Chib Former MLC and Former Minister Jugal Kishore Sharma who hails from Reasi. As per the sources there are less chances for the later two aspirants to secure the ticket in their favour, but still the final names are yet to be announced. It will take a little more to declare officially the names of the probable from the Jammu Poonch and Udhampur- Kathua-Doda constituency. Many people feel that this time women should be given a chance in the coming elections as every political parties are promised to give thirty three percent reservations to women in parliamentary, Assembly and local bodies election but every political party fails to fulfill the promises. On the conditions of anonymity there are reports that the name of Rani Gargi Billowria former deputy Mayor Jammu Municipal Corporation and a senior Congress leader also emerges among the front runners. Congress Party may now change the names of party candidates in view of BJP fielding leaders of Sangarsh Samiti from the prestigious Jammu-Poonch seat.
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