The failure of the Congress to tear off the Haryana from the Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party shocked a lot. Defying the exit polls, the saffron party held the ground in the state of the North and should return to power for a third historic term.
According to the India Electoral Commission (ECI) Data trends at 5:15 p.m., the BJP won 34 seats and is ahead in 15, while the Congress has obtained 30 and leads in six. The National Lok Dal (INLD) is ahead of two seats and three independents have won.
What did not go wrong for the congress?
Let’s take a closer look.
Intestine struggles congress
The war between the Hoodas and Kumari Selja was a secret of the Polichinelle at the Haryana Congress. There was a fight on the post of chief minister between Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Selja. Despite the congress which tries to portray a united front, he could not contain the internal quarrel.
According to a Indian Express The report, the deputy for Sirsa, Selja, an eminent Dalit leader, was unhappy due to the sidelining of the Hooda camp. She even remained away from electoral campaigns after the party published her last list of candidates on September 12.
Selja, who met the president of Congress Mallikarjun Kharge on September 22, told her how she and other senior leaders and workers of the party were “ignored” in the selection of candidates, formulating the party manifesto and were kept to The gap of party platforms, said the newspaper.
Hooda’s criticisms said most of the tickets had gone to the loyalists of the old CM. The High Command of the Congress also allowed Hooda to take the reins. It is believed that the big old party did not forge an alliance with the Aam Aadmi (AAP) party due to the opposition of Hooda.
Selja was looking for a ticket in the seat of the Uklana assembly (SC), but the management of the Congress did not want it to cancel its SIRSA Lok Sabha seat. The BJP tried to capitalize on the dissatisfaction of Selja, the Minister of the Union Manohar Lal Khattar even asking him to leave the Congress and to join the BJP.
Rajya deputy Sabha Randeep Singh Surjewala was also angry with the Hoodas calling for shots at Haryana.
The initiates of the Congress said Indian Express That a blame game should start after the party is surprised.
Caste factor
The JATS, which represent approximately 27% of the population of Haryana, have a strong presence in 40 of the 90 constituencies of the Assembly. The chief ministers of the JAT community have ruled the state of the Hindi belt for 33 years since 1966, when Haryana was sculpted from Punjab.
The Jat against Non Jat division is often played in Haryana. The BJP has banned the consolidation of non-yats votes to reach power in the state.
In 2014, the BJP finished a term of a decade of Bhupinder Singh Hooda, a leader of Jat key, to form the government. The Safran festival chose Manohar Lal Khattar, a Punjabi Khatri, for the CM Post. His holder Nayab Singh Saini is from the OBC community.
The major dependence of the Congress with regard to Jat voters to go back to power seems to have turned around. The Grand Old Party organized 28 jat in the surveys of the Assembly, while the BJP gave tickets to only 16 jat candidates. Jats was angry with the saffron party on several questions, including the bustle of farmers and the protest of wrestlers.
Haryana’s assembly has 17 seats reserved for caste (SC). If the congress had retained its Dalit support base, it may have stopped the juggernaut of the BJP.
The alliance of Jannayak jata party (JJP) with the Aazad Samaj party of Chandrashekhar Azad and INLD’s link with the Bahujan Samaj (BSP) party could have divided the Dalits votes, benefiting to the BJP, according to the India today.
Urban and rural missure
The BJP behaved well in the urban areas of Haryana, such as Gurgaon and Faridabad, over the past decade. This time, the Saffron Party won the seats in the Assembly of Gurgaon and Faridabad. His candidate also won the Ballabgarh district.
The congress expected to make a sensation in rural areas. The great Old Party won 45 rural assembly segments in Lok Sabha’s polls earlier this year. It was a cause of alarm for the BJP, which launched a campaign supported by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to won rural voters and working -class workers, according to India today.
It seems that it worked for the saffron party, catching the congress by surprise.
Why the Congress needed victory in Haryana
A victory in Haryana would have added to the Renaissance sequence of Congress in the elections. The Safran Day celebrated its better than expected performance in the results of Lok Sabha.
After winning five of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, the great old party was confident to rape the BJP in the polls of the Assembly.
The Grand Old Party has won no election of the Assembly in northern India since 2018, with the exception of the Himachal Pradesh in 2022. Indian Express.
The victory of the Congress would also have helped to advance the story that the BJP loses its grip on certain parts of northern India. The Safran party has lost seats in Lok Sabha’s polls in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Bihar, while keeping seats in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
The loss has left the congress something to introspection. He cannot afford to make similar mistakes before the other crucial state elections.
With agency entries
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