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Shah to firm up strategy for J&K Budget session
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|February 11, 2025
HOME Minister Amit Shah would meet all 28 BJP legislators to formulate the party's aggressive strategy ahead of the budget session of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly scheduled from March 3 in Jammu.
Sources in the BJP said that Shah would either be travelling to Jammu or summon all the 28 BJP legislators from J&K to New Delhi. The home minister conveyed this during his meeting with senior J&K BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in J&K Assembly Sunil Sharma in New Delhi.
"During his proposed meeting with the J&K BJP legislators, the Home Minister will discuss with them the strategy to be adopted during the Budget session of J&K Assembly from March 3," he said.
This story is from the February 11, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Coimbatore.
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