People casting their votes successful Julana Assembly Constituency during Haryana constituency predetermination connected Saturday. (Express Photo by Gajendra Yadav)
With the polling for the Haryana assembly elections acceptable to reason shortly, each eyes are connected the exit polls. While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is looking for a 3rd consecutive term, the Congress is seeking a comeback aft a decade.
Among the apical names successful the fray were Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, the BJP’s Anil Vij and O P Dhankar, the Congress’s Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, the INLD’s Abhay Singh Chautala and the JJP’s Dushyant Chautala.
While the superior contention is betwixt the ruling BJP and Congress, the state’s confederation dynamics has seen a churn. Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP ended its tie-up with the Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), which has present allied with Chandrashekhar Azad’s Aazad Samaj Party. While the Opposition INDIA bloc partners Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had struck a seat-sharing woody for the wide elections, they were incapable to travel to an statement for the Assembly polls. And the O P Chautala-led Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is contesting with the Mayawati-led BSP.
The Congress’s past stint successful powerfulness was besides for 2 terms, betwixt 2005 and 2014.
Exit polls for the past assembly elections successful 2019 projected the BJP to registry a much emphatic victory. However, the predetermination resulted successful a hung Assembly, with nary enactment securing a majority. The BJP yet formed the authorities with the enactment of the JJP and respective Independent MLAs.