Haryana Assembly Elections 2024 Live Updates: BJP eyes third term, Congress a comeback as Haryana votes today

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Haryana Assembly Elections 2024 Live Updates: With the BJP facing a 10-year anti-incumbency, Haryana is staring astatine a nonstop contention betwixt the saffron enactment and the Congress successful the Assembly polls. (Photos: Nayab Saini/ Bhupinder Singh Hooda/ X)

Haryana Assembly Polls Live: With the Haryana Assembly elections underway, polling volition instrumentality spot crossed each 90 seats, including 17 reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) successful the state, connected Saturday. While voting successful Haryana was initially scheduled to beryllium held connected October 1, coinciding with the past signifier of polling for the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections, the Election Commission deferred it owing to the Bishnoi community’s Amavasya festival and the agelong play astir Gandhi Jayanti.

Key contests: With the BJP facing a 10-year anti-incumbency, Haryana is staring astatine a nonstop contention betwixt the saffron enactment and the Congress successful the Assembly polls. In Garhi Sampla-Kiloi, erstwhile main curate Bhupinder Hooda volition contention against BJP’s Manju Hooda, the girl of a retired constabulary officer. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini volition spell up against sitting Congress MLA Mewa Singh successful Ladwa. Wrestler-turned-politician Vinesh Phogat, who joined the Congress enactment past month, volition contention against nonrecreational wrestler and AAP campaigner Kavita Dalal, and BJP’s Yogesh Kumar for the Julana seat.

Results of past assembly polls successful Haryana: In 2014, the BJP ended the Congress’s decade-long stint nether erstwhile CM Bhupinder Hooda, riding precocious connected the “Modi wave” aft the Lok Sabha polls. The saffron enactment had a ballot stock of 33.3 per cent (47 seats) and formed the authorities successful Haryana nether CM Manohar Lal Khattar. The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) was the 2nd largest enactment with 19 seats, followed by the Congress with 15. However, successful the 2019 assembly elections, the BJP fell abbreviated of a majority, having won 40 seats, contempt its ballot stock rising to 36.5 per cent. The JJP, which divided from the INLD successful 2018, made its canvass debut. The enactment proved kingmaker with its 10 seats, and allied with the BJP to signifier a conjugation government. The Congress secured 31 seats and became the Opposition successful the state.

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