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Slathia has served as a minister in the Congress-NC coalition government led by Omar Abdullah. But joined the BJP in 2021. The constituency has been placed in the general category after being reserved for Scheduled Castes for 28 years.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday suffered a setback with the exit of two more leaders from its Jammu and Kashmir unit ahead of the assembly elections. BJP’s Samba district president Kashmir Singh resigned from the primary membership of the party. Opposing the candidature of former Jammu and Kashmir minister Surjit Singh Slathia, who joined the BJP from the Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference, Singh said, “With a heavy heart, I am resigning from the primary membership of the party for which I have worked for 42 years. I was forced by circumstances to give ticket to a person who came from the National Conference (NC) and was vehemently opposed to our ideology for decades.”
Slathia has served as a minister in the Congress-NC coalition government led by Omar Abdullah. But joined the BJP in 2021. The constituency has been placed in the general category after being reserved for Scheduled Castes for 28 years. Singh alleged. We strengthened the BJP in Samba and made many sacrifices to take forward the ideology of Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee and the BJP. We held demonstrations and strikes for the removal of Article 370 and the ticket was given to a person who was always against our ideology and the removal of Article 370.
Singh, however, said “I will carry forward this fight and will file my nomination papers as an independent candidate against him.” Another BJP youth leader Kanav Sharma also resigned from the party in protest against giving ticket to ‘a corrupt’ leader Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Jammu district president Kanav Sharma said he is a third generation member of his family associated with the organisation and its ideology, but he does not accept the party’s decision to give ticket to Yudhvir Sethi from Jammu East.
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