Sensing angst over Article 370, the BJP is avoiding a direct contest and hoping proxy parties will win from Anantnag-Rajouri, Srinagar and Baramulla The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir chief Ravinder Raina was expecting his bosses in Delhi to make clear their decision on the candidate to be fielded for the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. Instead, Raina, on April 17, received a call that BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh was headed for Jammu. Raina and his colleagues in the J&K BJP were eventually stunned to know that the party would…
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