Can congress spring a surprise like lok sabha Polls?

The JJP, which was still quite young in politics, severely damaged the congress five years ago. In the haryana assembly elections of 2019, it ran on an anti-Bharatiya Janata party platform and won 10 assembly seats with 14.84 percent of the vote. It partnered with the bjp following the elections to support the latter in maintaining a coalition administration in the state for an additional term. The Bharatiya Janata Party's share of the votes in haryana decreased from 58.2 percent in 2019 to 46.11% in 2024.
In 2024, the vote share of the india bloc outperformed that of the BJP.
The congress, which ran for nine seats, received 43.67 percent of the vote, while the Aam Aadmi party, which ran for one seat (Kurukshetra), received 3.94 percent. Together, the opposition bloc received 47.61 percent of the vote. In haryana, the bjp is expected to face anti-incumbency. In March, it appointed Nayab Singh saini, a member of the Other Backward Class, as the chief minister of haryana, succeeding Manohar Lal Khattar, a Punjabi.
In recent weeks, saini has made announcements about social programs and pledged to quickly fill all open positions in the state administration.
Another bjp representative brought up internal conflicts within the Congress. But like it did in 2014 and 2019, a congress analyst thinks the bjp will find it difficult to portray the 2024 assembly elections as a Jat vs non-Jat community election.

The bhupinder singh Hooda-Udai Bhan combination has campaigned successfully on a number of topics, including the Agniveer plan, unemployment, inflation, farm hardship, and many "paper leak" incidents. Bhan is a Dalit who leads the congress state unit. Hooda has also pledged social programmes, such as 300 units of free electricity and an old-age pension of Rs 6,000. The lok sabha elections were close, according to figures from the election commission of India.

The decision on four of the ten seats came down to less than fifty thousand votes. Of these, the congress won Ambala and Sonepat, while the bjp won Bhiwani-Mahendragarh and Kurukshetra.
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Sowmiya Sriram

16/09/2024 12:37 PM