{"id":350000,"date":"2024-09-04T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=350000"},"modified":"2024-09-04T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T13:48:08","slug":"bjp-to-skip-8-seats-in-kashmir-valley-out-of-24-in-phase-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-to-skip-8-seats-in-kashmir-valley-out-of-24-in-phase-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP to skip 8 seats in Kashmir Valley out of 24 in Phase 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/09\/BJP-in-Kashmir.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-350001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/09\/BJP-in-Kashmir.jpg 976w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/09\/BJP-in-Kashmir-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/09\/BJP-in-Kashmir-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/09\/BJP-in-Kashmir-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/09\/BJP-in-Kashmir-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The BJP has announced that it will not field candidates in eight of the 24 seats up for election in the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Assembly polls. The decision affects seats in South Kashmir, including Tral, Pulwama, Zainapora, DH Pora, Kulgam, Devsar, Dooru, and Pahalgam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the upcoming elections, the BJP has nominated candidates for 16 of the 24 seats in the first phase, with polling scheduled for September 18. The party&#8217;s revised candidate list follows the withdrawal of an earlier list of 44 candidates on August 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This election, the first since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, is seen as a significant test for the BJP as it faces competition from a rejuvenated Congress, which has allied with the National Conference. The results will be announced on October 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP has announced that it will not field candidates in eight of the 24 seats up for election in the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir&#8217;s Assembly polls. The decision affects seats in South Kashmir, including Tral, Pulwama, Zainapora, DH Pora, Kulgam, Devsar, Dooru, and Pahalgam. For the upcoming elections, the BJP has nominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":350001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[17549,16188,15577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350002,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350000\/revisions\/350002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/350001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}