Haryana Assembly poll results: As JJP falters, BJP, Congress increase SC seat tally

Of the 8 reserved seats it won, the BJP saw a diminution successful its borderline successful 4 seats — Narwana, Bawal, Israna, Hodal. It besides saw an summation successful an adjacent fig of constituencies — Kharkhauda, Pataudi, Bawani Khera and Nilokheri.

The Congress saw its triumph margins falling successful 3 (Shahbad, Sadhaura, Jhajjar) of the 9 seats it won. It accrued its borderline successful the remaining six seats — Kalanaur, Kalawali, Uklana, Mulana, Guhla and Ratia.

Of the 4 reserved seats that were won by the JJP successful 2019, Congress snatched 3 (Guhla, Shahbad and Uklana), portion the BJP managed to triumph Narwana.

In 2019, 1 of the 17 reserved constituencies (Nilokheri) was won by an Independent. This time, BJP won the seat.

Among salient candidates, BJP campaigner and erstwhile MP Sunita Duggal mislaid to Congress’s Jarnail Singh successful Ratia. Singh defeated Duggal by 21,442 votes. Former curate and Congress person Geeta Bhukkal retained her constituency, Jhajjar, by defeating BJP’s Kaptan Birdhana. Pradeep Narwal of the Congress, who contested from Bawani Khera, was defeated by BJP’s Kapoor Singh by 21,779 votes.

SCs relationship for astir one-fifth of the colonisation successful Haryana and are mostly concentrated successful agrarian areas. Traditionally, these seats utilized to beryllium strongholds of the Congress.