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BJP will fight upcoming Assembly polls in J&K on its own strength: Raina

PTI

Jammu & Kashmir BJP president Ravinder Raina on Wednesday said his party would fight the upcoming Assembly elections on its own strength to form the next government in the Union Territory.

He said the BJP is fully prepared for the polls, which would be announced after the completion of the delimitation exercise, and had set a target of 50-plus assembly seats.    

"The BJP will fight the upcoming assembly elections on its own strength and there will be no alliance with anyone," Raina told reporters after addressing a workers convention in Doda district.     

Raina, who is presently on a tour of various districts as part of the party's mass contact programme and mobilising its workers ahead of the polls, said the party had to stitch an alliance with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after the last assembly elections after it fell short of its mission of 44-plus seats.