The Congress has fielded Chaudhary Lal Singh in the upcoming Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections for the Basohli seat. Lal Singh has won the Basohli seat three times with different parties: the All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) in 1996, the Congress in 2002, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014. 

 

Notably, he won the 2014 election by a substantial margin of 17,801 votes, securing over 53 per cent of the vote share against his nearest rival from the National Conference. Singh's return to the Congress party earlier this year positions him as a central figure in their strategy to reclaim lost ground in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in traditionally strong areas like Basohli. 

 

Chaudhary Lal Singh, a former MP and J&K state minister in the previous PDP-BJP coalition government, made headlines in 2018 when he organised a Tiranga rally to support the accused in the Kathua rape case.