BJP to intensify J&K campaign, Amit Shah’s rally blitz on Saturday

Jammu: Ahead of the second of the three-phased poll process for the J&K Assembly elections, covering 26 seats in five districts of both the Jammu region and the Kashmir Valley, the BJP has decided to intensify its poll campaign in the former, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah slated to address a spate of rallies across the area on Saturday, party sources said.
The second phase of the elections, on September 25, covers the constituencies in Reasi, Rajouri, and Poonch districts in the Jammu region, and Srinagar and Budgam districts of the Valley.
PM Modi started the BJP poll campaign for the second phase of the Assembly elections on Wednesday, addressing two rallies in Srinagar city and Katra town of Jammu division.
BJP sources said the party has decided to intensify its poll campaign focusing on its political bastion of the Jammu region where the party expects to win the maximum of its 43 seats. In the 2014 elections, the BJP had won 25 seats, almost all of these from the Jammu division. ians