The BJP managed to defy anti-incumbency, securing a 3rd consecutive time period in Haryana.
New Delhi:
After the resounding defeat within the current Haryana Meeting elections, Congress’ Common Secretary and Haryana in-charge, Deepak Babaria, has supplied to resign, taking ethical duty for the celebration’s dismal exhibiting. The provide comes amid inner celebration deliberations on the explanations behind the disastrous ballot efficiency, which shattered Congress’s hopes of creating a comeback after a decade within the Opposition and allowed the BJP to attain a hat-trick of Meeting elections victory.
The BJP managed to defy anti-incumbency, securing a 3rd consecutive time period in Haryana, whereas the Congress was left scrambling for solutions. The BJP’s electoral victory, their best-ever within the state, noticed them win 48 seats – 11 greater than the Congress – leaving little room for the opposition to recuperate. Smaller gamers, such because the Jannayak Janta Celebration (JJP) and Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP), have been decimated, whereas the Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) might solely handle two seats.
Congress had closely relied on Dalit and Jat voters, teams that represent practically 20 per cent and 25 per cent of Haryana’s inhabitants, respectively. Nevertheless, the BJP made vital inroads into each, leaving the Congress struggling to carry onto its conventional help bases.
The BJP managed to flip eight of the 17 Scheduled Caste (SC) seats, together with Nilokheri, Pataudi, Kharkhauda, Hodal, Bawal, Narwana, Israna, and Bawani Khera. Essentially the most vital upset got here in Hodal, the place Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan misplaced to BJP’s Harinder Singh.
Regardless of these losses, the Congress held onto the remaining 9 SC seats however did not make any decisive good points. Compared, the BJP’s efficiency marked an enchancment from the 2019 elections, when it gained solely 5 SC seats.
Following his celebration’s defeat, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi expressed his disappointment with the election outcomes. In his first response, he described the end result as “sudden” and mentioned the celebration was conducting an inner evaluation to grasp the explanations behind the loss. Mr Gandhi thanked the folks of Haryana for his or her help and promised to proceed preventing for “rights, social and financial justice, and the reality.”