Amid speculations whether the Samajwadi Party will field its candidates in Haryana assembly elections or Congress will give it some seats, SP President Akhilesh Yadav on Friday has indicated that his party may not field its candidates for ''unity of the INDI alliance''.
The party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) has finalised the name of candidates for the second phase, said its General Secretary in-charge of Organisation KC Venugopal.
Although elections for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly are being held after a gap of ten years, the ongoing election process is witnessing the absence of three former chief ministers – Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, and Ghulam Nabi Azad – from the electoral arena.
Polling for the second phase of elections will be held in 26 Assembly constituencies including Kangan, Lal Chowk, Budgam, Reasi, Nowshera, Rajouri, Budhal, Poonch Haveli, and Mendhar in the Union Territory.
During the scrutiny of the nomination papers filed by 279 candidates, the candidature of 244 candidates was found valid as per the guidelines of the Election Commission of India.
Tuesday was the last day of filing nomination papers for the first phase of Assembly polling scheduled to be held on 18 September.
In the first phase, polling will be held in 24 Assembly constituencies including Pulwama, Kulgam, Ramban, Doda and Shopian in the Union Territory.
A meeting chaired by the Chief Secretary, Atal Dulloo was held to draw a plan for making the Legislative Assembly complexes at both Srinagar and Jammu ready for holding its sessions after the elections.
Mrs. Kejriwal will be accompanied by Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, AAP senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and party's National general secretary Sandeep Pathak.
The meeting of the WG is being held under the chairmanship of the party president Dr Farooq Abdullah. The party vice president Omar Abdullah was also present in the meetin
