“JP Nadda knows our culture, traditions…”: J&K Dharmarth Trust Trustee Martand Singh

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], July 7 (ANI): After Bharatiya Janata Party chief JP Nadda offered prayers at Raghunath Temple in Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir Dharmarth Trust, Trustee Martand Singh on Sunday said that the Union Health Minister knows culture and traditions as he is from Himachal Pradesh.

Earlier in the day, JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh visited the Raghunath Temple in Jammu and offered prayers.

“Today is a very happy day for the people of Jammu as the National President of BJP has arrived here. JP Nadda is from Himachal Pradesh and he knows our culture and traditions. On behalf of Dr Karan Singh and the royal family, I welcomed him,” Martand Singh told ANI.

Jammu and Kashmir Dharmarth Trust shared pictures of their visit to the temple.

As per the temple authorities, Martand Singh, grandson of Karan Singh and Trustee of J-K Dharmarth Trust, welcomed the union ministers on their arrival.

Union Minister JP Nadda arrived in Jammu on Saturday afternoon and later in the day paid tribute to Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee on his birth anniversary in Jammu.

Union Minister G Kishan Reddy, who is in charge of poll-bound Jammu and Kashmir, told reporters in Jammu on July 6 that they are conducting a review and will discuss the upcoming programs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Union Territory.

J-K is likely to see its first Assembly election in September this year, according to the timeline fixed by the Supreme Court after the erstwhile state’s special status was scrapped in 2019. The last Assembly election in the erstwhile state was held in 2014.

The BJP-led government scrapped Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 and bifurcated the state into two union territories. There have been demands from political parties for early assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir and the restoration of statehood. Earlier, the Supreme Court had asked the Election Commission of India and the Centre to conduct polls by September.