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14Oct

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Over 50% of postal votes in Haryana went to Congress, victorious BJP got less than 35%

New Delhi: Even as it failed to win, the Congress bagged 51.7 percent of the postal ballots cast in the Haryana assembly elections, markedly more than the 34.89 percent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—which has returned to power for the third straight term with a comfortable majority—according to Election Commission data. The Congress won more postal ballots—which accounted for only 0.57 percent of the total votes cast—than the BJP in as many as 74 of the 90 assembly seats in Haryana. In terms of total vote share, which takes into account both postal ballots and votes cast through electronic voting machines (EVMs), the two parties were neck and neck, with the BJP securing 39.94 percent against the Congress’s 39.09 percent. Of the 90 seats, 48 were won by the BJP, while 37 went to Congr...

14Oct

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Haryana numbers show Congress had best strike rate among Jats, BJP among Punjabis & Ahirs

BJP concentrated its efforts on attracting non-Jat and OBC voters, which seems to have worked effectively. The party gained more traction than the Congress among Brahmins, Punjabi Khatris, Yadavs and non-Jat Dalits, which helped secure the party’s third consecutive victory in Haryana.The survey shows that the Congress managed to rally a significant portion of Jatav voters among Dalits, a group closely associated with senior Congress leader Kumari Selja. Additionally, it secured support from Muslims and Sikhs, who make up about 7 and 4 percent of the total electorate, respectively.The BJP’s Punjabi and Ahir candidates had the best strike rates. Among Punjabis, the Congress had fielded eight candidates and won three seats, whereas the BJP scored nine wins with 11 tickets. In the Ahir communi...

11Oct

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‘Tried to divide us for 10 yrs.’ Why Rao Inderjit is taking on fellow Union minister Khattar

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is still celebrating its victory in the Haryana Assembly elections. A day after declaration of results, several party leaders and workers gathered at Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar’s residence to congratulate him for his role in the party’s win and discuss the formation of the new government. Against this backdrop, another Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh has taken aim at Khattar without naming him and accused the former Haryana chief minister of trying to weaken his and his daughter Arti Rao’s position in his stronghold—the Ahirwal belt of the state. Addressing BJP workers at his residence, Rampura House in Rewari, Rao Inderjit said: “We had a chief minister… I will not take his name. He tried to divide us, pit us against each other for 10 ...

11Oct

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BJP’s Haryana hurricane

Late in the evening of October 8, even as the euphoria over the surprise victory in Haryana was still sinking in, Prime Minister Narendra Modi followed a tradition he has set in place after every important election win—appearing at the BJP headquarters in the national capital to address jubilant party workers. After the party agonisingly fell short of the majority mark in the Lok Sabha election in June, the mood had turned sombre and introspective. But now, with the miraculous ‘hat-trick of assembly wins’ in Haryana and the creditable performance in Jammu and Kashmir, the josh is back among BJP workers.Source link

11Oct

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Profile | Nayab Singh Saini: From shadows to spotlight

In a stunning political outcome, Nayab Singh Saini, once dismissed as a lightweight protégé of former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, has emerged as Haryana’s unexpected victor. Leading the BJP to its best-ever assembly performance with 48 seats and a 39.94 per cent vote share, Saini has not only neutralised a decade of potential anti-incumbency but also etched his name among the select few chief ministers who have successfully defended their mandate in the state.Source link

11Oct

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Frequent paroles, furloughs to rape & murder convict Ram Rahim did little for BJP in Haryana polls

Jyoti Mishra, a researcher at the Delhi-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, said the Dera Sacha Sauda leader did not significantly impact voting patterns during the election. Caste-based voting patterns, she added, had a greater impact on the election results in these constituencies than Ram Rahim’s voter appeal. “This is because the Dera’s influence is primarily among Dalit communities, and the 28 assembly constituencies, believed to be home to Dera followers, tend to have a mixed population,” she told ThePrint.“In fact, in the 15 assembly constituencies where the Congress won, the Jat and Jat Sikh populations were more prominent, consolidating support for the Congress. On the other hand, in the seats won by the BJP, non-Jat castes formed the majority, which favoured the p...

11Oct

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Congress | Lessons not learnt

The Congress party’s stunning defeat in Haryana, a state it was widely expected to win, and its below-par performance in Jammu and Kashmir, signify more than just a temporary stumble. These setbacks have again exposed the deeper structural flaws that plague the party. In Haryana, the Congress secured 37 seats in the 90-member assembly, losing an election supporters and even opponents presumed would be a straightforward win. In J&K, the party won only six of the 32 seats it contested and will be part of the government only because of the strong showing by its ally, the National Conference.Source link

10Oct

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Behind Congress’s shock defeat in Haryana, rebels, Independents & INDIA bloc allies

A third Congress rebel went on to win. Rajesh Joon, who contested as an Independent from the Bahadurgarh seat after being denied a ticket by the party, won the seat handsomely by 41,999 votes. On Wednesday, Joon joined the BJP.The Congress also suffered to some extent due to the AAP, its INDIA bloc ally, which may have cornered a vote share of just 1.79 percent but polled enough votes in three seats to pave the way for the BJP to race ahead and helped the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) win in one. The INLD itself played spoiler for the Congress in three seats.Political analyst Asim Ali told ThePrint that while the Congress and BJP got similar vote shares—39.09 percent and 39.94 percent respectively—in terms of the median vote share, which refers to the vote share minus the outliers where t...

9Oct

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‘Fight Not Yet Over’: Vinesh Phogat Thanks Julana Voters On Maiden Victory In Haryana Polls

Congress leader Vinesh Phogat, who won the Haryana Assembly elections from Julana constituency, thanked voters for helping her achieve her maiden victory in polls. She called it a "battle of justice" and said the "fight was not yet over". The Olympian wrestler turned politician had defeated BJP's Yogesh Kumar by a margin of 6,015 votes in Julana, making a noteworthy political debut. Initially, Phogat took an early lead, but later fell behind for sometime before regaining momentum in the electoral race. Indian National Lok Dal candidate Surender Lather finished third, while Aam Aadmi Party’s Kavita Rani secured the fifth spot. The fourth spot was taken by JJP's Amarjeet Dhanda. "Thank you, Julana and the people of Haryana!! I wholeheartedly thank all the residents of Julana and everyone fro...

9Oct

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Haryana: Day After Results, 2 Independents Join BJP In Boost For Saffron Camp, Saini Govt Now H

Haryana Assembly Elections: A day after the BJP registered a historic win for the third time in a row in Haryana, two Independent MLAs joined the saffron camp in a major boost for the party. Independents Devender Kadyan and Rajesh Joon joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday, October 9, at Union Minister and Haryana in-charge Dharmendra Pradhan's house in the presence of state BJP chief Mohan Lal Badoli. With this recent development, the seat tally of the BJP, which earlier stood at 48, has now increased to 50. Kadyan, a BJP rebel, had contested and won from Ganaur as an Independent. Joon, who defeated his BJP rival in Bahadurgarh, also joined the party today. #WATCH | Delhi: Independent MLAs Rajesh Joon and Devender Kadyan extend their support to BJP in Haryana. BJP is set t...

9Oct

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BJP’s Haryana win boosts its position in Mahayuti, but may not translate into easy gains in Maharashtra

Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) best-ever victory in Haryana may boost the morale of party workers in Maharashtra and have an impact on its power within the Mahayuti alliance, but it is, perhaps, still a tall order for the BJP to replicate what happened in Haryana in Maharashtra. Haryana saw its regional parties being almost wiped out with Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) failing to open its account, and the Indian National Lok Dal winning just two seats, reducing Haryana to an almost two-party state. On the other hand, when Maharashtra votes next month, regional parties, especially the two Shiv Senas and the two Nationalist Congress Parties, are likely to play a dominant role with there being six major parties in the fray. Haryana saw a direct fight between Jats a...

9Oct

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After Haryana Hat-trick, BJP’s Nayab Singh Saini Lands in Delhi; Oath Taking Likely On Dashami

A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured the comfortable third term in Haryana, Chief Minister Nayyab Singh Saini, along with the party's state President Manohar Lal Khattar, landed in Delhi on Wednesday (September 8) to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Singh is set to take oath as Haryana Chief Minister for the second time on Dusshera, Oct 12, as per reports. Battling anti-incumbency, the BJP, months before the Haryana Assembly polls, replaced its strongman Manohar Lal Khattar as chief minister with low-profile OBC leader Nayab Singh Saini. The decision surprised many. On Tuesday, the BJP's gamble paid off with Saini leading the party to victory in the Haryana Assembly polls after a dismal showing in the Lok Sabha elections in the state and defying exit poll predictions of...

‘First post-Modi victory for BJP’—how Haryana elections show RSS is still the boss

9Oct

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‘First post-Modi victory for BJP’—how Haryana elections show RSS is still the boss

New Delhi: In May this year, in the middle of the Lok Sabha election, BJP president J. P. Nadda had made national headlines when he said the party is now saksham (capable), and no longer needs its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to campaign for it. The result of that election, which the RSS cadres largely sat out, was a significantly reduced mandate for the BJP at the Centre. Just a few months later, the same RSS cadres campaigned tirelessly for the party in Haryana—going door-to-door distributing voter slips and pamphlets, organising thousands of meetings, collecting feedback for the party from the ground, and even recommending poll candidates. Show Full Article The result has been an entirely unanticipated and unprecedented third consec...

9Oct

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Haryana Assembly Polls: BJP’s Dadri Candidate And His Connection With Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

Sunil Sangwan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate who won from the Dadri Assembly segment in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district, was a jail superintendent in the Haryana Prisons Department. Sangwan, who won the Haryana Assembly election against his nearest rival Manisha Sangwan of the Congress by 1,957 votes, was reportedly superintendent of the jail where the Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was lodged. In Dadri, while the BJP candidate received 65,568 votes, his Congress rival polled 63,611 votes, followed by 3,713 votes for Sanjay Chhaparia, an independent candidate. The son of former Dadri MLA and ex-minister Satpal Sangwan, Sangwan joined the Haryana Prisons Department in 2002 and remained in government service for over 22 years until he took voluntary retirement...

8Oct

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Haryana: BJP Hails Modi For Hat-Trick, Cong Cries Foul Over EVMs, AAP Points To ‘Overconfidence

Haryana Election Result 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to form the government in Haryana for the third consecutive time, overcoming apparent anti-incumbency and significant losses in the Lok Sabha elections. This victory comes despite BJP's tally in the Lok Sabha dropping from 10 seats in 2019 to five and exit polls predicting a Congress government following this election.Haryana Election Result: BJP Credits PM Modi For Historic Third Term Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the BJP's victory as a triumph of truth, development, and good governance. Speaking to party workers at the BJP headquarters, Modi declared that "the people of Haryana have stamped out falsehood." Modi criticised the Congress, accusing the party of trying to provoke various sections of society. He st...

8Oct

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‘Congress Tried To Instigate Farmers, Dalits But Got Befitting Reply’: PM Modi On BJP’s Hat-Tri

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the BJP workers at the party headquarters in New Delhi after the Bharatiya Janata Party secured a historic victory in the Haryana Assembly election on Tuesday, October 8. During his address, he thanked the Haryana electorate for polling in BJP's favour and lashed out at the Congress for "hatching conspiracies" to "weaken India's democracy and social fabric". Referring to the opposition doubting the poll verdict in Haryana, he claimed that Congress was trying to defame India's institutions and was misleading people. PM Modi also said that the Congress got a "befitting reply" from the farmers, Dalits, and OBCs in Haryana, who voted for the BJP to "show them that they stood with the country". "...For some time now, many conspiracies are being hatched aga...

BJP’s Arti Rao wins close contest with BSP’s Attar Lal in Ateli. Congress’s Anita Yadav a distant 3rd

8Oct

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BJP’s Arti Rao wins close contest with BSP’s Attar Lal in Ateli. Congress’s Anita Yadav a distant 3rd

Gurugram: Aarti Rao, daughter of Union minister of state Rao Inderjit Singh and BJP candidate from Haryana’s Ateli, defeated her nearest rival Attar Lal of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) by a narrow margin of 3,085 votes. Anita Yadav of the Congress came in third by a wide margin of over 27,000 votes. Aarti represents the third generation of a prominent political dynasty. Her grandfather, Rao Birender Singh, served as the second chief minister of Haryana, and her lineage traces back to Rao Tula Ram, a renowned freedom fighter and Yaduvanshi Ahir chieftain of Rewari from 1838 to 1857. A graduate from Delhi University, Aarti Rao is an international rifle shooter and has represented India for 18 years in international events. Show Full Article Rao Inderjit Singh, ...

BJP’s Sunil Sangwan, ex-jailer in whose tenure Ram Rahim got out 6 times, wins Dadri by slim margin

8Oct

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BJP’s Sunil Sangwan, ex-jailer in whose tenure Ram Rahim got out 6 times, wins Dadri by slim margin

Gurugram: Sunil Sangwan, a former jail superintendent and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Dadri in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri district, won against his nearest rival, Manisha Sangwan of the Congress, by 1,957 votes. While the BJP candidate polled 65,568 votes, his Congress rival tallied 63,611 votes. Sanjay Chhaparia, an independent candidate, came third with 3,713 votes. A former superintendent of jails in the Haryana Prisons Department, Sangwan resigned from his post of superintendent of Bhondsi (Gurugram) prison and joined the BJP last month, ahead of the announcement of tickets by the party for the assembly polls. Show Full Article Sangwan’s request for voluntary retirement was processed at lightning speed by the Haryana Prisons department.A mail ...

8Oct

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BJP shatters predictions of Congress triumph in Haryana, attributes success to ‘pro-incumbency vote’

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is winning Haryana for the third straight term, a feat unprecedented in the state’s history, shattering the Congress’ hope of ending a decade’s power drought, with it being left to draw cold comfort from the likely clear majority to its alliance with the National Conference in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. As the counting progressed, the Congress, which was confident of carrying the momentum of its Lok Sabha performance in the assembly elections, was stunned into silence, while the BJP regained its voice, with its leaders attributing its success to a “pro-incumbency vote” in Haryana. According to Election Commission’s latest figures, the BJP has won 14 seats in Haryana, and is leading in 36, while the Congress has so far won 15, and a...

8Oct

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BJP retains Haryana’s Karnal as Jagmohan Anand defeats Congress’s Sumita Virk by over 33,600 votes

Gurugram: Jagmohan Anand of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has defeated Sumita Virk of the Congress by 33,652 votes in Haryana’s Karnal, a constituency represented by two chief ministers from the BJP in the past decade. Previously, Manohar Lal Khattar held the seat from 2014 till March 2024. He was succeeded by incumbent CM Nayab Saini, who held the seat from May 2024 till the dissolution of the Haryana assembly last month. When Khattar was elected from Karnal for the first time in 2014, he ended the BJP’s 18 years of drought in this seat, as the last time the party had won from here was in 1996 when Shashipal Mehta secured victory. Show Full Article The only other occasion when a BJP candidate won from Karnal was in 1987 when Lachhman Dass was elected as a ...

In Ladwa, Haryana CM Nayab Saini leads against Mewa Singh of Congress by over 13,000 votes

8Oct

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In Ladwa, Haryana CM Nayab Saini leads against Mewa Singh of Congress by over 13,000 votes

Gurugram: Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has won the Ladwa assembly seat in Haryana’s Kurukshetra district, defeating his nearest rival, Mewa Singh of the Congress, by 16,054 votes, according to Election Commission data. Saini, who replaced Manohar Lal Khattar as CM on 12 March, was elected to the Karnal assembly seat in a by-election held along with the Lok Sabha polls this year. For Saini, who once used to type press notes in the BJP office in Panchkula and assist Khattar during the latter’s tenure as the organising secretary of the BJP in Haryana, the rise in politics has been meteoric. Show Full Article He won his first assembly election from Naraingarh in 2014. In 2015, he was inducted into the Khattar cabinet as a minister of state. In 2019, Sa...

8Oct

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Weeks after Olympics upset, Vinesh Phogat wins 1st electoral bout in Haryana’s Julana

New Delhi: In her first electoral bout since losing out on an Olympic medal, wrestler Vinesh Phogat has won Haryana’s Julana assembly constituency. She defeated BJP’s Yogesh Bairagi, Surender Lather of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the incumbent MLA Amarjeet Dhanda of the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP). The 30-year-old took the electoral plunge after she was disqualified from the 50 kg women’s wrestling event at the Paris Olympics ahead of the gold medal match for exceeding the weight limit by 100 grams. She was among wrestlers who led protests last year against then BJP MP and former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh—accused of sexual harassment by multiple women wrestlers. Congress had not won the Julana assembly constituency, where Vinesh is in...

Sitting MLA Aftab Ahmed wins by 46K votes in violence-hit Nuh, BJP a distant third

8Oct

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Sitting MLA Aftab Ahmed wins by 46K votes in violence-hit Nuh, BJP a distant third

Gurugram: Congress candidate Aftab Ahmed, deputy leader of the opposition in the outgoing Haryana assembly, has won by a margin of 46,963 votes in Nuh constituency. While Ahmed has polled 91,833 votes, INLD’s Tahir Hussain Hussain 44,870 votes, and BJP’s Sanjay Singh 15,902 votes. Congress leader Ahmed is the sitting MLA and has held the seat previously too. Show Full Article Nuh drew attention because Haryana’s ruling BJP is seen to have fielded Singh, the sitting MLA from neighbouring Sohna, in an apparent bid to polarise votes in the constituency that saw violence last year during a Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) yatra.Nuh, part of the Mewat region in Haryana, had witnessed communal violence in July, which significantly impacted the socio-political environment...

8Oct

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Independent Savitri Jindal wins in Haryana’s Hisar, defeats Congress’s Ram Niwas Rara by 18k votes

Gurugram: India’s richest woman, former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal, had won the Hisar assembly seat, according to the Election Commission data as of 2:20pm, defeating her nearest rival Ram Niwas Rara of the Congress by over 18,000 votes. Jindal secured 49,231 votes, while Rara and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)‘s Kamal Gupta trailed behind with 30,290 and 17,385 votes, respectively. Jindal, the mother of industrialist Naveen Jindal—the BJP MP from Kurukshetra in Haryana—is contesting as an Independent from Hisar. She previously represented this constituency for two terms, from 2005 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2014, and it is the seat from which her late husband, O.P. Jindal, was elected on three occasions. Show Full Article She is the chairperson of the OP Jin...

7Oct

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Haryana Poll Results: Will Olympian Vinesh Phogat Get Congress Its Julana Medal After 15 Years

Haryana Assembly Election Result 2024: The final results of the Haryana elections are due in less than 24 hours and the Congress is buoyant over the exit poll indicators. Amid all the seats contested by Congress candidates in Haryana, the Julana Assembly constituency is of particular interest. One of the reasons, why this constituency has emerged as a hot seat is the fact Congress has fielded Olympian Vinesh Phogat and the Aam Aadmi Party fielded WWE player Kavita Dalal. The other reason is that Congress has won the seat only four times in its electoral history, and the last two times were in 2005 and 2000. Journalists, who are familiar with the ground situation, estimate that the Congress will win this seat. This means that Congress candidate and Olympic wrestler Vinesh Phogat could win h...

7Oct

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Who Will Be Next Haryana CM? Congress, BJP Will Be Faced With Tough Choices

The exit polls for the Haryana Assembly elections pointed to a big BJP upset and a massive Congress victory. Although exit polls have been known to get the election results wrong in the past, they can give one an idea of what lies in store for the people of a state for the next five years. The Haryana results are due tomorrow and it looks to be a tough road ahead for the top leadership, irrespective of which party wins. Going by the exit polls released on Saturday evening, it's a clear win for the Congress. Congress, which was once a dominant party in Haryana, fell flat on its face in 2014, losing 25 seats. In 2019, it managed to save grace with 31 seats, but couldn't come to power. The BJP, which got 40 seats, and Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janta Party, with 10 MLAs formed the governmen...