Jammu, Feb 28 (KINS): With the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly set to convene for the budget session on March 3, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday launched a two-day training workshop for its 28 legislators. The session aims to equip them—especially the 19 first-time MLAs—with skills to effectively participate in legislative proceedings.
News agency KINS reported that the ‘Vidhayak Prashikshan Shivir’ was inaugurated in Katra by BJP national general secretary B.L. Santosh and J&K BJP president Sat Sharma. The event saw the presence of key BJP leaders, including BJP national general secretary and J&K in-charge Tarun Chugh, MPs Jugal Kishore and Ghulam Ali Khatana (Rajya Sabha), as well as Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma.
BJP national president J.P. Nadda and Union Minister Jitendra Singh are expected to join the workshop on Saturday. The event features 10 sessions, where senior leaders will guide legislators on handling debates, countering opposition arguments, and raising public issues proactively inside and outside the assembly.
Ahead of this, on February 23, Jitendra Singh had convened a luncheon meeting with BJP legislators in Jammu to discuss the strategy for the upcoming session—the first since the 2018 collapse of the PDP-BJP coalition government. Singh emphasized that such training is a BJP tradition to ensure that vital public concerns are effectively raised in the assembly.
In last year’s assembly elections, BJP secured 29 seats—all from the Jammu region. However, the party lost one of its members, Devender Singh Rana, who passed away in October, just two weeks after the National Conference-led government was formed in the Union Territory.(KINS)
