Assembly elections 2014: BJP ministers visiting valley to boost morale of candidates

Srinagar: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to prepare a big stage in Kashmir valley as the part has initiated a thorough campaigning in the region for the forthcoming polls for the assembly.

The details received by KNS informed that the top BJP leadership will arrive in valley in the month of August and the poll strategy with its state unit shall be threadbare discussed.

Sources privy to this development told KNS that the BJP high command has this time decided to concentrate more on valley as the Jammu now is being considered as the bastion for the party.  It during the recently held LS polls swept all two seats of the region. Sources have stated further that BJP has directed his senior cadre that during the campaigning for the LA polls, a major chunk of the ministers, one by one must visit valley to support the party candidates in the region. Unconfirmed reports have also suggested that the party is eying at least two to three seats during the assembly elections in valley with the party thrusting more in the areas of North and central Kashmir. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 30 met BJP general secretaries and discussed organisational matters as also measures to strengthen the party ahead of assembly elections in some key states.

Modi spent over an hour with the ten party general secretaries seeking suggestions from them on improving governance and strengthening the party. This was Modi’s first meet of such nature after he took charge as Prime Minister. Reports maintained that Prime Minister also asked the party leaders to prepare for assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra and Haryana Jharkhand and Bihar.