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Days after a below-par performance in the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana, the state BJP got a shot in the arm as Tosham MLA and ex-minister Kiran Choudhry and her daughter Shruti Choudhry, one of the working presidents of the state Congress, joined the ruling party on Wednesday. Both Kiran and Shruti had resigned from the Congress on Tuesday.
From winning all the 10 seats in 2019 down to five, the BJP’s Haryana setback in the Lok Sabha polls has shocked many. These numbers are crucial because they could have a bearing on the state’s Assembly polls scheduled for October.
The leads of the Lok Sabha polls seem to be spelling doom for former Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), which looks set to forfeit deposits in all 10 seats.
In Haryana, which voted in the parliamentary elections on Saturday and, crucially, will see an Assembly election later this year, caste is as entrenched a feature of politics as in the other Hindi heartland states.
Five years ago, the BJP had a clean sweep in Haryana, winning all its 10 Lok Sabha seats, including eight with huge margins. But come Saturday, the party is likely to face an uphill task maintaining its tally – or worse, minimising its losses – due to multiple events since 2019.
At Badopatti village on the Hisar-Ambala National Highway, Rohtas Guri talks about how he had to spend three-four days just to get details in his ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra’ corrected.
In January 2018, a youth Congress leader named Divyanshu Budhiraja along with few other students raised slogans against the then Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar when he was making his way to a college principal’s office in Panchkula after attending an event there. They were all clad in black, and were raising slogans on rising unemployment.
The Sirsa Lok Sabha constituency in Haryana is witnessing a fierce contest between two former state Congress chiefs, Kumari Selja and Ashok Tanwar.