PDP and BJP launch 'Mission 44' in Jammu and Kashmir

BJP and PDP have geared up to get a majority in the 87 member Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
Both are working to get 44 seats each and have named it ‘mission 44’. Jammu and Kashmir is expected to go to polls in October-November 2014

The Omar Abdullah-led coalition government of NC and Congress would complete six years in January 2015

However, it is expected that the state may recommend for early polls. 

PDP, which has 21 members in the state Assembly, has set target for 44 seats after it won three Lok Sabha seats from the Valley.

The BJP has 11 members in the Assembly.

The BJP won 3 out of 6 Lok Sabha seats of Jammu, Udhampur and Ladakh taking lead in 29 Assembly segments in the 2014 Parliamentary Elections


For the first time since 1939 when Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah renamed Muslim Conference as National Conference, the party is facing a threat to survival.

Eager to set its house in order, the party is experimenting and trying its hand at everything. 

NC has made Ali Muhammad Sagar the general secretary, replacing Sheikh Nazir, the cousin of president Farooq Abdullah.
Sagar is an MLA from Khanyar and is the minister of rural development and panchyati raj.

It is for the first time in the past 30 years that a party leader outside the Abdullah family has been given the charge of general secretary.