{"id":33636,"date":"2024-11-01T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstimers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/senior-jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-leader-devender-singh-rana-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T19:09:00","slug":"senior-jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-leader-devender-singh-rana-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstimers.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/senior-jammu-and-kashmir-bjp-leader-devender-singh-rana-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Jammu and Kashmir BJP leader Devender Singh Rana passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-container\">\n<p>Devendra Singh Rana, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MLA from Nagrota constituency of Jammu and Kashmir, died in a hospital in Faridabad late on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Devendra Singh Rana, younger brother of Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh, had won the 2014 assembly elections on a National Conference (NC) ticket. In the recently held elections, he retained the Nagrota seat by winning on BJP ticket by a margin of 30,472 votes. His nearest rival Joginder Singh of NC got 17,641 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Rana had won against his rival in the 2024 assembly elections with the highest margin.<\/p>\n<p>In the elections for 90 seats of Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, NC won 42, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 29, Congress six, People&#8217;s Democratic Party (PDP) three and CPI(M), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and People&#8217;s Conference ( PC) won one seat each. Independent candidates have seven seats, six of which have joined the National Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The NC has formed the government under Omar Abdullah with the support of Congress, six independents, one CPI(M) and one AAP candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Congress, CPI(M) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have not joined the government. Congress has said that it will not join the Jammu and Kashmir government until statehood is restored.<\/p>\n<p>The Jammu and Kashmir cabinet headed by Omar Abdullah passed a proposal to restore statehood in its first meeting. Omar Abdullah went to Delhi and handed over a copy of this proposal to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>The National Conference has also decided to bring a proposal for the restoration of Article 370 in the Assembly session starting from November 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devendra Singh Rana, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MLA from Nagrota constituency of Jammu and Kashmir, died in a hospital in Faridabad late on Thursday night. Devendra Singh Rana, younger brother of Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh, had won the 2014 assembly elections on a National Conference (NC) ticket. 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