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BJP Releases First List For J&K Polls, Withdraws It Soon After, Then Announces Two Revised Lists With Just 16 Names

The BJP on Monday released two revised lists in quick succession after withdrawing a first list in which it had named 44 candidates for the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The party has now named a total of 16 candidates — 15 in the first revised list and only one in the other — for the first phase. The party included Kashmir constituencies like Pampore, Shopian, Anantnag West, Anantnag and Kokernag in its revised lists. Here are the candidates’ names in both the lists: Phase 1 Pampore: Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi Rajpora: Arshid Bhat Shopian: Javed Ahmad Qadri Anantnag West: Mohd Rafiq Wani Anantnag: Syed Wazahat Srigufwara-Bijbehara: Sofi Yousuf Shangus-Anantnag East: Veer Saraf Inderwal: Tariq Keen Kishtwar: Sushri Shagun Parihar Padder-Nagseni: Sunil Sharma Bhadarwah: Daleep Singh Parihar Doda: Gajay Singh Rana Doda West: Shakti Raj Parihar Ramban: Rakesh Thakur Banihal: Salim Bhat Kokernag : Choudhary Roshan Hussain Gujjar

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