PM Modi, Shah to attend key party meeting with J&K leaders

PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to hold a meeting with BJP leaders of J&K on Tuesday. The meeting is said to be a signal for the next assembly elections in the state. Last polls in the state were held in November-December 2014.

New Delhi:The BJP's central leadership will hold a meeting with its Jammu and Kashmir leaders on Tuesday, with official sources indicating that the assembly polls in the state are likely to be held in October.

PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah along with other leaders of the party will take stock of the party's preparedness for the upcoming elections, whose schedule is likely to be announced by the Election Commission after the Amarnath Yatra is completed next month.

According to sources, "Union minister Jitendra Singh, BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, its state unit president Ravinder Raina and other senior leaders from the state will attend the meeting, which is likely to be chaired by party's working president JP Nadda."

Senior leaders including BJP general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh will also attend it.

Nadda will travel to the state in the coming days to oversee and tone up the party's organisational work for the elections.

Earlier, Madhav, who is the party's pointsman for Jammu and Kashmir, had urged the EC to hold polls in the state this year.

Asked about the likely schedule of the assembly polls, the sources said : "They may start from October and stretch to November."

The polls were held in November-December in 2014.

Home Minister Amit Shah had asserted in Parliament that the Centre is prepared to hold polls once the EC announces the schedule.

The poll panel had said on June 4 that it will announce the schedule after the Amarnath Yatra, which is concluding next month.

Jammu and Kashmir is currently under President's Rule, which has been extended for one more term of six months beginning from July 3.

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