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Of the 12 seats wherever the INLD-BSP harvester finished third, securing much votes than the triumph margin, lone 4 had the Congress losing to the BJP. (Express Photo by Tashi Tobgyal)
The caller Haryana elections saw the Congress and BJP pitching for 2 abstracted ballot blocs – the archetypal hoping for Jat-Dalit votes, and the second for non-Jat OBCs. While the Congress got its calculations wrong, the harm did not travel from astatine slightest the 2 fronts enactment supporters were fearing – the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD)-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance, and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP)-Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) oregon ASPKR combine.
While the 2 fronts besides eyed the aforesaid Jat-Dalit ballot combination, an investigation of the results shows that neither made overmuch impact.
Of the 12 seats wherever the INLD-BSP harvester finished third, securing much votes than the triumph margin, only 4 had the Congress losing to the BJP. In eight, the Congress managed to people a triumph implicit the BJP.
The parties individually excessively fared poorly. While the JJP failed to triumph a azygous spot and its main Dushyant Chautala ended up successful the 5th spot successful his bastion of Uchana Kalan, its genitor enactment INLD won lone 2 seats. Their Dalit-vote slope allies BSP and ASPKR, respectively, failed to unfastened their accounts.
The corporate ballot stock of the INLD-BSP successful Haryana stood astatine 5.96%. This was acold amended than the JJP-ASPKR stock of 1.05%, with the JJP bearing the brunt of the choler implicit its tie-up with the BJP aft winning 10 seats successful 2019. While its ballot stock stood astatine 0.9%, the ASPKR, making its debut successful Haryana successful a bid to grow its basal beyond Uttar Pradesh, got lone 0.15% of the votes.
Both the INLD and JJP are led by scions of the Devi Lal family, which has had tremendous power connected Jat votes. The BSP, led by erstwhile UP CM Mayawati, has secured a important fig of Dalit votes successful the past successful Haryana polls.
The seats wherever the BJP mislaid and the Congress won, with the INLD-BSP confederation getting much votes than the triumph margin, included Adampur, Fatehabad, Hathin, Julana, Kalanwali, Loharu, Naraingarh and Sadhura. Olympic wrestler Vinesh Phogat was the Congress campaigner from Julana.
The seats wherever the Congress mislaid and the BJP won, with the INLD-BSP confederation getting much votes than the triumph margin, included Assandh, Barwala, Narwana and Yamunanagar.
The JJP-ASPKR finished 3rd and got much votes than the triumph borderline successful lone 1 seat, Dabwali, wherever the INLD’s Aditya Devilal defeated Congress nominee Amit Sihag by a constrictive borderline of 610 votes. JJP campaigner Digvijay Singh Chautala finished present with 35,261 votes.
In 2 seats, Jagadhri and Panchkula, wherever the Congress defeated the BJP, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidates finished 3rd and got much votes than the winning margin. The BJP had won some the seats successful 2019.
The AAP contested successful Haryana separately aft talks for an confederation with the Congress failed.
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