Srinagar: The BJP leadership on Saturday began closed-door discussions in Jammu to design strategy for the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir likely to be held by the year end even as the party has, once again, publicly exuded confidence of winning these comfortably and forming the next government in the Union Territory on its own. Union minister for coal and mines G. Kishan Reddy who is also the BJP’s in-charge of J&K affairs claimed that a “positive environment and peace” prevail in the UT following the abrogation of Article 370 and it is because of this that “We are sure that support for the BJP will increase in the coming time.
” The BJP’s J&K unit chief Ravinder Raina, however, stated categorically that the party will win the upcoming Assembly elections with a comfortable majority and form the next government in the UT. At the same time, he urged the party workers and leaders to “work hard and work together” to ensure that J&K gets its first chief minister from the saffron party by winning the next assembly elections on its own. Meanwhile, the BJP leaders and delegates from across J&K were joined by their national president and Union Health Minister JP Nadda, his cabinet colleagues Jitendra Singh and Mr.
Reddy, National General Secretary (in-charge J&K), Tarun Chugh and some other key faces of the party at a two-day ‘Vistarit Karyasamiti Baithak’, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee. Mr. Reddy wrote on microblogging .