Srinagar, October,13 /
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) state President Sat Pal Sharma, along with two other candidates-Dr. Ali Muhammad Mir and Rakesh Mahajan-submitted their nomination papers on Monday for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections scheduled for October 24.
According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), all three BJP candidates were accompanied by Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office Dr. Jitendra Singh, Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Ali Khatana, Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma, and other party MLAs. They arrived at the Assembly Secretariat complex and submitted their nomination papers to the Returning Officer.
Manoj Pandita, Secretary of the Legislative Assembly, is serving as the Returning Officer for the election.
While the BJP holds a strong position for the seat being contested by Sat Sharma, the party has fielded Dr. Ali Muhammad Mir and Rakesh Mahajan for a symbolic contest on seats likely to be won by the National Conference (NC) candidates—Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan and Sajad Kichloo.
The ruling alliance, led by the NC, is comfortably positioned to secure three seats. The NC had offered the fourth seat-considered risky-to the Congress, which ultimately decided not to contest—(KNO)