Raina, Manyal to head Election Management Committee
Raina, Koul leaving for Delhi today to discuss list with HC
Avtar Bhat
JAMMU, Feb 27: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Election Committee which met here today to discuss the probable candidates for the Lok Sabha elections from Jammu and Kathua-Udhampur Parliamentary constituencies, the names of whom were recommended by the Committee constituted by the party to have a survey on ground level for selection of candidates.
The Election Committee meeting which was held at party office was chaired by BJP JK UT president, Ravinder Raina while among others it was attended by party national general secretary, incharge J&K and Ladakh UTs, Tarun Chugh, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, co incharge J&K Ashish Sood, party general secretary (Org) Ashok Koul, national secretary, Dr Narinder Singh, vice president, Shakti Parihar, party general secretaries, Dr D K Manyal, Sunil Sharma and Vibodh Gupta, MP Jugal Kishore Sharma, former Dy CM, Kavinder Gupta, National Executive Member, Priya Sethi, party chief spokesperson, Sunil Sethi, senior leader Devender Singh Rana, party spokespersons, R S Pathania, Girdhari Lal Raina, BJP Mahila Morcha president, Sangeeta Dogra, Rafiq Ahmed Wani and Dr Farida Khan.
According to sources, about a dozen names including sitting MPs from both Jammu and Kathua, Udhampur & Doda Lok Sabha constituency figure in the list submitted by the Committee. The other probable candidates included former legislators and senior party leaders for both the constituencies whose names were proposed as probable candidates by the Committee, sources added.
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Sources said the names were submitted by the Committee after a proper survey in the districts of both the constituencies out of which three to four candidates will be shortlisted from both the constituencies to be submitted to the Parliamentary Board -the highest organizational body for selection of candidates.
Sources said on other three constituencies including Anantnag -Rajouri constituency, Srinagar and Baramulla constituencies the party is keeping its cards close to the chest and maintaining a wait and watch till opposition parties clear their stand whether they will field a common candidate or contest elections separately.
However, sources said that party survey for newly carved out Anantnag – Rajouri seat has given first preference to BJP UT president, Ravinder Raina as a probable candidate. However, the final decision in this regard lies with Parliamentary Board. Raina himself is interested in contesting from that Lok Sabha constituency, sources added.
They said BJP is organizing an election rally of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at Srinagar on March 7. Earlier party had decided to hold rally at Anantnag but later it has decided to hold it in Central Kashmir, sources added.
They said that Ravinder Raina and Ashok Koul are leaving for Union Capital tomorrow with the list of probable names for two Lok Sabha seats and discuss it with High Command who will finalise the two candidates for the constituencies.
Meanwhile, BJP constituted an Election Management Committee headed by party president Ravinder Raina as chairman and Dr D K Manyal party general secretary as convener. The names of the Committee were announced in the meeting by party president, Ravinder Raina in presence of Tarun Chugh and Ashish Sood and other senior leaders.
This Committee has Pawan Khajuria as co-convener, Priya Sethi as Election Office Incharge, Vikas Choudhary and Adarsh Jathiar as co-incharges, Dr Devinder Manyal as Call Centre incharge and Salman Sheikh as co-incharge, Tilak Raj Gupta as office management incharge and Ravi Bakshi as co-incharge, Sanjay Khanna as Protocol incharge, Bawa Sharma and Gourav Pargal as co incharges, Rajni Sethi and Dr.Pradeep Mohtra as incharges Media Department , Dr. Tahir Choudhary and Prerna Nanda as co-incharges.
Sunil Sethi has been named as incharge Media Relations, Balbir Ram Rattan and Rakesh Pant as co-incharges, Rajesh Thappa as incharge Legal Matters & Election Commission and Diwakar Sharma as co-incharge, Chander Mohan Sharma as incharge Literature Preparation, Rajnish Jain and Pawan Sharma as co-incharges, Rajnish Jain as incharge and Ankush Mahajan as co-incharge of Literature Printing, Ayodhya Gupta as incharge Publicity Material and Imtiaz as co-incharge, Ajay Vaid as incharge and Arif Raja as co-incharge publicity material and literature distribution.
Naresh Singh has been named as incharge cars, other road vehicles, Arvind Gupta as incharge helicopter, chartered flights, Aseem Gupta as incharge tour of national leaders, Rajeev Charak as incharge State leaders, Ajay Pargal as incharge special tours, Chander Mohan Gupta as incharge, advertisement campaign of TV, FM, Radio, Theatre, advertisement and cable network, Akash Chopra, Rajinder Singh Chib and Karan Sat Sharma as co-incharges, Vikram Randhawa as incharge video vans and Hari Om as do-incharge, Narayan Singh as Incharge resource and Munish Khajuria as co-incharge, Prabhat Singh as incharge accounts and Prem Gupta as co-incharge, Rajeev CA as incharge statistics, Narottam Sharma as co-incharge, Kulbhushan Mohtra as incharge documentation and Ramesh Katoch as co-incharge, Sunil Sethi and Devinder Rana as incharge Manifesto, Shamsher Singh Manhas, RS Pathania and Abhinav Sharma, Ranjit Singh and Sarfraz Ahmed as co-incharges, Gourav Balgotra as incharge as WhatsApp Groups.
Ankit Gupta has been named as Incharge Facebook & Twitter, Nitish Mahajan as Incharge Website, Ishant Gupta and Yudhveer Sambyal as Incharge Digital Department, Abhijeet Jasrotia as Incharge Digital Media (You tube, Portal, Blog, Podcast etc), Poonam Mahajan as co- incharge, Rakesh Mahajan as Incharge folkfare team of cultural publicity and Kulbir Charak as incharge street play of Cultural Publicity, Surjeet Singh Salathia as incharge Special Sampark , Purnima Sharma and Surinder Ambardar and Javed Kakroo as co-incharges, Ajay Bharti as incharge Pravasi Workers and Shashi Goswami as co-incharge, Sanjita Dogra as women campaign incharge, Updesh Andotra and Suhani Katoch as Co-Incharges, Arun Dev Singh as incharge Youth Campaign, Sanjeev Mahajan and Anil Kumar as co-incharges.
Neelam Langeh has been made as incharge SC campaign, Nidhi Mangotra, Dev Raj and Dharminder Kumar as co-incharges, Choudhary Roshan as incharge ST campaign and Mukhtiar Ahmed as co-incharge, Rashpal Verma as incharge OBC Sampark, Sunil Prajapati as co-incharge, Ranjodh Singh Nalwa as incharge and Damanjeet Singh as co-incharge of Sikh Sampark, Jeet Angral as Incharge Jhuggi-Jhopdi campaign, Gurmeet Kour Randhawa and N.D. Tripathi as co-incharges, Bali Bhagat as incharge social sampark, Anju Dogra and Pt. Ashok Khajuria as co-incharges, Sham Lal Sharma as incharge Labharathi Sampark, Reema Padha and Bilal Parray as co- incharges, Parduman Singh as incharge Booth Work, Dr. Garu Snehi, Rajesh Mehta and Rafiq Wani as co-incharges, Sunil Sethi incharge talking points and Arun Gupta as co-incharge, Pawan Sharma as incharge Vistarak Yojna and Sajjad Raina as co-incharge
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