Jammu will decide formation of next govt in J&K: Amit Shah

Jammu, Sep 7: The Jammu region would decide the formation of a government in the assembly poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday while appealing to the people to ensure the victory of the BJP’s candidates in the elections.
Polling in Jammu and Kashmir is scheduled on September 18, 25 and October 1. The counting of votes will be held on October 8.

Addressing a workers’ rally at Ploura in Jammu north assembly segment, Shah introduced the BJP’s candidates from 11 seats of Jammu districts that are going to polls in the last phase and said, “We have to not only defeat their opponents but also ensure that they lose their security deposits.”
He said the BJP will fight the elections with its might and nobody should have any doubt about its victory.
“The time when someone else was deciding whose government will be formed (in J&K) has gone. Now Jammu will decide the formation of government,” Shah said at the rally before concluding his two-day election campaign in the Union Territory.
“(PM) Modi restored your honour by ending discrimination and injustice faced by you… Ensure a government which will work for you so that you do not go to Srinagar with a begging bowl. It is possible by strengthening Modi’s hand,” the senior BJP leader said.
He asked the BJP workers at the rally to “take a pledge to ensure the victory of party candidates before leaving this place”.
Recounting the Modi government’s works, Shah said it has spent over Rs 32,000 crore for the development of the Jammu region alone in the past 10 years.
Power projects worth over Rs 25,200 crore to generate 3,000 MW electricity and make Jammu and Kashmir surplus in electricity and boost development are underway, he informed the rally.