Srinagar, Oct. 13 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced names of three candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections in Jammu and Kashmir slated to be held on October 24, while the party MLAs in J&K held a meeting in Srinagar to strategise for filing nominations on Monday. The ruling National Conference (NC) on Friday announced the names of three candidates for the upcoming polls.

The Central Election Committee of the BJP approved the names of the three candidates from the union territory for the four seats to be filed under the three notifications of the Election Commission of India.

The names are Ali Muhammad Mir, Rakesh Mahajan and Satpal Sharma.

"It is hereby clarified that in the earlier communication issued, the name...