BJP for conducting Assembly elections in J & K

Srinagar, PTI 

The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP Thursday batted for holding Assembly elections in the Union Territory, saying the Assembly is the only forum to make laws which the local bodies or district development councils (DDCs) cannot.

"Assembly is a forum where laws are made. A DDC chairman will not make laws, panchs will not make laws," General Secretary (organisation), J&K BJP, Ashok Koul, told reporters here.

Koul said the party will contest the polls on a large scale and put up a good show. "We will have a good show in this election. The government will be formed after elections... Assembly platform will come here very soon," he said.

The unit organised an outreach programme here in which the party leaders threw light on development activities which have taken place in the last nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government.