Haryana Meeting Polls: The Congress on Thursday introduced the names of eight extra candidates for the Haryana Meeting election. It left the Bhiwani seat for the Communist Occasion of India (Marxist), because it accounted for all 90 seats within the state. Thursday was the final day for submitting nominations for the polls, that are set to be held on October 5.
Hours after the announcement of the ultimate record for the Haryana polls, the grand outdated occasion confronted a revolt as a few of its leaders determined to enter the ballot fray as independents after being denied a celebration ticket. Haryana is scheduled to go to the polls on October 5, and the counting of votes shall be held on October 8.
The record of senior leaders of the opposition occasion who’ve determined to contest the polls as independents consists of former state minister Sampat Singh from Nalwa and former MLAs Lalit Nagar from Tigaon and Sharda Rathore from Ballabhgarh. Different aspirants who’ve entered the ballot race as independents embody Chitra Sarwara (Ambala Cantonment) and Rohita Rewri (Panipat Metropolis).
After the ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP), the Congress too is going through resentment in Haryana from those that have been denied tickets. Former MLA Ram Kishan “Fauji,” a ticket aspirant from Bawani Khera, has additionally filed his nomination as an unbiased.
After being denied a ticket to contest the Haryana polls, a number of the aspirants broke down. A teary-eyed Lalit Nagar stated that regardless that he had labored arduous to strengthen the grand outdated occasion in Haryana, he was “stabbed within the again”.
Whereas addressing a gathering of his supporters in Faridabad’s Tigaon, he stated, “I had invited all of you pondering that I’d carry out a ‘havan’ after which go to file my nomination as a Congress candidate. However a few of our enemies have conspired and tried to commit my political homicide,” as quoted by information company PTI. Lalit Nagar was anticipating to get a ticket from the Tigaon Meeting phase, however the Congress has fielded a brand new face, Rohit Nagar, from the constituency.
Rathore and Jitender Kumar Bharadwaj additionally expressed their agony after the occasion determined to not subject them within the meeting polls. Congress additionally denied a ticket to the daughter of former minister Nirmal Singh, Sarwara. Reacting to the occasion’s choice, she stated that she finds it tough to just accept that the occasion has not fielded her from Ambala Cantonment, regardless of “being manner forward in numerous surveys that the occasion carried out to pick its candidate”.
“I used to be working arduous within the constituency and getting good assist from individuals. I have no idea why I used to be ignored,” Sarwara stated. Six-time MLA and senior BJP chief Anil Vij is searching for re-election from Ambala Cantonment. Within the final Meeting polls too, Sarwara had contested from Ambala Cantonment as an unbiased after being denied a ticket by the Congress. She had misplaced the competition to Vij.
Lalit Nagar informed his supporters that he hoped to get a ticket, however “some conspirators stabbed me within the again”.
Rathore, a former MLA and a ticket hopeful from Ballabhgarh, additionally broke into tears in entrance of her supporters after she was not picked by the Congress. Her supporters alleged that she was “betrayed” by the occasion. Resentment additionally got here to the fore within the Sohna Meeting phase in Gurugram, the place senior occasion chief Bharadwaj was denied a ticket.
“Sorry mates, in the present day, service, dedication, and devotion have misplaced,” Bharadwaj posted in Hindi on a social media platform. The Congress has introduced the candidature of recent occasion joinee Rohtash Khatana, who was related to the Jannayak Janta Occasion (JJP) beforehand, from Sohna.
(With PTI Inputs)
