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PM Modi will be visiting the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir three times to campaign for the BJP candidates in the forthcoming assembly polls in UT.

According to reports, Modi will first visit Jammu on September 14, where he is scheduled to address his first election rally.

Following this, he will visit the UT again later in the month, although confirmation of this visit and the date for the same have not been finalised as yet.

During his first visit on he will address a massive rally in Doda. 

The venue and timing of this rally will be announced in a couple of days. BJP is contesting all of the eight assembly seats of Doda, Paddar-Nagseni, Kishtwar, and Inderwal in Kishtwar district; Doda, Bhaderwah, and Doda West in Doda district; and Ramban and Banihal in Ramban district. 

Campaigning for the first phase was kicked off by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on September, during which he released the party manifesto for the upcoming Assembly polls. 

In the last assembly elections held in 2014, Doda had six Assembly constituencies out of which the BJP won four while the Congress bagged two. 

The BJP has fielded senior leader Sunil Sharma from Paddar-Nagseni, Shagun Parihar in Kishtwar, Tariq Keen in Inderwal, Daleep Parihar from Bhaderwah, Shakti Parihar from Doda West, Gajay Singh Rana in Doda, Rakesh Singh Thakur in Ramban, and Mohammad Salam Bhat from Banihal. 

In the first phase, scheduled for September 18, elections for only the Doda region seats in Jammu will be held. 

Meanwhile, on September 19, the Prime Minister is expected to campaign for the second phase constituencies in Rajouri, Poonch, and Reasi districts, where elections will be held on September 25. 

Elections for the remaining Assembly constituencies of  Jammu, Samba, Kathua, and Udhampur districts together accounting for 24 Assembly seats, will be held in the third phase on October 1.

Other than Prime Minister, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda, and Smriti Irani, including union ministers and chief ministers of BJP-ruled states, will campaign in Jammu and Kashmir.