Assembly Election 2024: The Election Commission has announced the dates for the assembly elections to be held in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday (August 16). BJP’s election campaign has started in full swing for this. This election is very special this time. Because, assembly elections were held here for the first time in the year 2014 and now assembly elections will be held in the year 2024.
According to the report, this election in Jammu and Kashmir is also special because this is the first election being held in the state as a Union Territory after the removal of Article 370. In fact, on 5 August 2019, the President had issued a notification to remove Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir.
Know what is the political equation of Jammu and Kashmir?
After revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the government redrawn the electoral constituencies in the region in 2022. In which the Hindu-dominated Jammu division was allotted an additional 6 assembly seats, while the Kashmir division got only one additional seat, taking the total to 90 seats (excluding Ladakh). However, earlier, Jammu had 37 seats and the Valley had 46 seats.
People are unhappy with BJP after Article 370
Opposition parties say that the public is unhappy with the BJP since the removal of Article 370. These recent incidents Lok Sabha Elections This has become clear in the Lok Sabha elections. Where BJP decided not to contest any of the three seats in the valley due to fear of defeat. Apart from this, the party could not even save its Ladakh seat. Apart from this, the newly formed parties supported by BJP also did not perform well.
BJP is busy preparing for the assembly elections
As soon as the elections were announced, all the political parties became active. At the same time, the Prime Minister is campaigning for the BJP. Narendra Modi The BJP has started discussing the development work done in Kashmir in the last 4 years by the BJP-led government. The party is contacting people in all the districts of Jammu and Kashmir. In such a situation, regional BJP leaders say that new people are joining the party. But the reality is that the BJP is strong in the Jammu region, but it has not got any assembly seat in the Muslim-dominated Kashmir region.
According to the report, after winning 3 seats in the District Development Council (DDC) elections in the Kashmir Valley in the year 2020, the BJP is trying to make a strong foothold. Whereas, the BJP claims that it has more than 4 lakh members in the valley alone.
What were the results of the assembly elections in 2014?
Ladakh was a part of Jammu and Kashmir during the 2014 assembly elections. At that time, there were 87 seats in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly. Whereas, in the 2014 election results, PDP won 28 seats and BJP won 25 seats and became the second largest party. Apart from this, National Conference won 15 seats and Congress won 12 seats. At the same time, People’s Congress won 2 seats and JKPDF and Independent won 1 seat each.
The last government was formed by the BJP and PDP alliance
In these assembly elections, PDP and BJP formed the government together. Whose Chief Minister was CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. But, after his death, his daughter Mufti Mohammad Sayeed became the Chief Minister. But this alliance did not last long and in 2018 BJP withdrew its support from the government. After this, President’s rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir.