Haryana Election Updates
Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP’s campaign, speaking at four rallies and criticizing the Congress on a number of subjects. Voting for 90 seats in Haryana will determine the political futures of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Congressmen Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, as well as Dushyant Chautala of the JJP and over a thousand other candidates.
Here is the Updates of Haryana Election 2024:
1. In Haryana, 9.5% of voters cast ballots as of nine in the morning. While the Congress is expecting to return to power in the state after a ten-year absence, the incumbent BJP is aiming for a hat-trick. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Congress, and Azad Samaj Party (ASP) are the other prominent contenders.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP’s campaign, speaking at four rallies and criticizing the Congress on a number of subjects, notably the Ram temple controversy, and accusing them of entwining every significant national issue.
3. In addition, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi spoke at numerous public gatherings, predicting a “Congress storm” in Haryana, a government led by his party that would be pro-poor and pro-farmers, and the opening of “mohabbat ki dukan” in every community throughout the state.
4. The BJP is not running for the Sirsa seat, where Haryana Lokhit Party leader Gopal Kanda is running for reelection, while the Congress gave the Bhiwani assembly seat to its INDIA bloc partner Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M).
5. A direct contest between the BJP and the Congress is anticipated in the majority of seats. Leader of the Opposition Hooda (Garhi Sampla-Kiloi), Chief Minister Saini (Ladwa), JJP’s Dushyant Chautala (Uchana Kalan), INLD’s Abhay Singh Chautala (Ellenabad), BJP’s Anil Vij (Ambala Cantt), Capt. Abhimanyu (Narnaund) and OP Dhankar (Badli), AAP’s Anurag Dhanda (Kalayat), and Congress’s Phogat (Julana) are notable figures among them.
6. The BJP has nominated Arti Rao, whose father Rao Inderjit Singh is a Union Minister, from Ateli in Mahendragarh, while Bhavya Bishnoi, the grandson of former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, has been fielded from the Adampur segment in Hisar. Savitri Jindal (Hisar), Ranjit Chautala (Rania), and Chitra Sarwara (Ambala Cantt) are among the independent contenders.
7. Brijendra Singh, the Congressman and son of former Union minister Birender Singh, is going up against Dushyant Chautala from Uchana. A small number of rebels from the BJP and the Congress are also running. From Tosham seat, former BJP MP Shruti Choudhry and Anirudh Chaudhary, both relatives, are running. Aditya Devi Lal, an INLD candidate from Dabwali, is running against Digvijay Singh Chautala of the JJP. Chautala is the great-grandson of the former Deputy Prime Minister.
8. The BJP secured 40 seats, the Congress won 31, and the JJP won 10 in the most recent 2019 assembly election. The JJP then joined the BJP in forming the government, and the majority of independents had also backed it at that point. But after the BJP appointed Nayab Singh Saini as Chief Minister in March, replacing Manohar Lal Khattar, the JJP’s post-election alliance with the BJP came to an end.
9. The Director of Police According to Shatrujeet Kapur, the Haryana Police are ready to provide a free, fair, and orderly election process. There are now 225 paramilitary groups and almost 30,000 police officers on duty. There are 1.07 crore men, 95 lakh women, and 467 transgender voters out of the total number of voters. The election is scheduled for October 8.
There are 5,538 women and 3,283 men among the 8,821 voters above 100 years old. The total number of service voters is 1.09 lakh. Remarkably, about 68% of voters participated in the 2019 assembly polls.
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