New Delhi
Union Home Minister Amit Shah in a party meeting on Friday reviewed preparations for forthcoming elections in Jammu and Kashmir and asked party leaders to be prepared for it.
Shah headed a three hour long meeting with leaders of the core group of Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday at his residence in Delhi.The meeting was held on a day when veteran Congress leader and former J&K Chief MInister Ghulam Nabi Azad resigned from his party and announced his plans to form a new party in the Union Tetritory
Shah asked the party leaders to work for the establishment of Sangh in J-K. He also discussed the security situation on the ground along with the elections, as well as the targeted killings in the Valley. J-K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha also held a meeting with Shah on Friday. There is a view that assembly elections in the UT could be held after the completion of the ongoing electoral roll revision exercise. Sources, though, have discounted the possibility of the polls being held this year.