JAMMU & KASHMIR

DAVINDER RANA From: National Conference (NC) to BJP in October 2021 USP: Was practically No. 2 in the NC and ran the party in Hindu-dominated Jammu. Is the brother of Union minister Jitendra Singh

SURJIT SINGH SLATHIA From: National Conference to BJP in October 2021

USP: Former minister in the Omar Abdullah government

SURINDER CHAUDHARY From: PDP to BJP April 2022

USP: Former MLC, was a Hindu face in the Mehbooba Mufti-led PDP in the Jammu region