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The initial candidate list of the PDP for the assembly elections has created furore within the party with many leaders saying they are not being rewarded for their loyalty. Many party leaders who left PDP after the abrogation of Article 370, are now joining back and are expected to get tickets
Ram Madhav, who stitched together the BJP-PDP alliance in 2014, is coming to a changed Jammu and Kashmir where the BJP did not have the confidence to contest from three seats in Kashmir in the general elections, and there is raging militancy in the Jammu region?
The party has enumerated a number of schemes for women and also included a promise of establishing a Transgender Welfare Board to support the transgender community
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The manifesto says the party will strive for the full implementation of the Autonomy Resolution passed by the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly in 2000
The political parties of J&K have been seeking the restoration of Article 370, statehood and elections since it was abrogated in 2019
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