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BJP chief JP Nadda chairs meeting with top party brass in Jammu 

BJP national president JP Nadda is currently chairing a meeting of Jammu-Kashmir BJP Core Group members. BJP's National General Secretary and J&K affairs in-charge Tarun Chugh, co-in-charge Ashish Sood and top BJP leaders including Dr Jitendra Singh, Ravinder Raina, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Kavinder Gupta, Dr Nirmal Singh, Ashok Koul, Devender Singh Rana and others attended the meeting. 

On Saturday evening, JP Nadda chaired a closed-door J&K BJP Core Group meeting. He also held one-on-one talks individually with J&K BJP and RSS leaders. Sources say the party's strategy for the forthcoming Assembly polls and organisational matters were discussed in the meet. 

Earlier on Saturday, JP Nadda attended the concluding session of J&K BJP Executive meeting and also addressed it. Nadda is also scheduled to visit AIIMS Jammu at Vijaypur in Samba district later on Sunday. He will return to New Delhi in the evening.

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