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JAMMU: The Assembly Election Manifesto Committee of the Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP met at a party headquarters here on Sunday, with Union minister G Kishan Reddy emphasising the need for extensive public outreach before finalising the document.
The Committee will seek suggestions from various sections of society to frame its manifesto for the upcoming elections.
Ravinder Raina, President, J&K BJP chaired the meeting, which was attended by Manifesto Committee Chairman Dr. Nirmal Singh, and Committee members, BJP National Secretary Dr. Narinder Singh, J&K BJP General Secretary (organization) Ashok Koul, J&K BJP General Secretaries Sunil Sharma, Adv Vibodh Gupta and Dr. Devinder Kumar Manyal, BJP NEM Priya Sethi, Chief Spokesperson Adv Sunil Sethi, spokesperson RS Pathania, senior leader Devender Singh Rana and Dr. Rafiq Wani.
Other members of committee are J&K BJP Vice-President Sham Lal Sharma, Dr Drakshhna Andrabi and Dr Shehnaz Ganai.
While addressing the meeting, Kishan Reddy, who is also BJP’s assembly election in-charge for J&K, emphasized on the good governance motive of the Narendra Modi government.
He said that BJP believes in the participation of common masses in its policy making and hence on the lines of Parliament elections, BJP Jammu and Kashmir will design its Assembly election manifesto in accordance with the wishes of the people of Jammu & Kashmir.
He said that the senior party leaders and especially the members of the Assembly Election Manifesto Committee will do extensive public outreach with involvement of all sections of society to collect the important points to be included in the manifesto.
Ravinder Raina announced that the party has divided the region into the 7 areas namely Jammu, Rajouri-Poonch, Doda-Ramban-Kishtwar, Udhampur-Reasi, Samba-Kathua, Kashmir and Kashmir Displaced.
He said that the teams will also be formed on the district basis to have more outreach within the society and the whole process will be completed up to August 15. He said that the roadmap of the BJP will be set up by this exercise thus fulfilling the party’s mission of ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas’. Dr. Nirmal Singh said that the party leaders will meet with the prominent people from all the sections of the society like youth, women, economists, farmers etc, representatives of various communities like refuges, displaced, SCs, STs, OBCs, Paharis, employees etc, and all the other sections.