Congress MP Kumari Selja is on the lookout for the Haryana Chief Minister’s publish
New Delhi:
Congress MP Kumari Selja advised EDNBOX immediately she is assured her celebration will cross 60 seats in Haryana. An mixture of seven exit polls have indicated the Congress will win 55 of Haryana’s 90 seats – comfortably forward of the midway mark of 46.
Well being warning: exit polls typically get it flawed.
With the forecast of a Congress win in Haryana, the main focus has moved to who could be the subsequent Chief Minister. Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Randeep Surjewala, and Ms Selja herself have made their ambition identified to the general public, a lot earlier than the election. This had raised a state of affairs of infighting.
Ms Selja has made it clear she may be very a lot within the race for the highest publish, however it will not be by means of the standard “staking declare” optics.
“Each state has teams. It is part of politics. Why level fingers at Haryana or my celebration? This has been there, not simply throughout elections. On the bottom all of us have labored onerous collectively,” Ms Selja advised EDNBOX.
She denied she would push her means by means of to stake declare for the highest publish. “Why ought to I stake declare? Avoid this mindset, that folks stake declare. We have now a degree of seniority, who work onerous on the bottom, and are dedicated to the celebration. Such folks must be thought-about. Why ought to it’s about staking declare…” the Congress MP stated.
Ms Selja isn’t amenable to the concept of constructing MLAs choose the Chief Minister, as in response to her this might result in extra factionalism. As an alternative, the excessive command ought to take the massive choice, she stated.
“I’ve all the time felt in all these years, together with throughout discussions with the excessive command, {that a} nationwide celebration has to take a political view on issues. And that’s what must be the primary consideration in selecting folks, anytime, wherever, any publish, as to what we need to do, what we need to present, what we need to current. Aside from that, it’s all the time the excessive command’s final phrase which counts,” she stated.
“I really feel even at the moment and this time, counting MLAs and many others isn’t a wholesome factor for any celebration. I believe it’s the excessive command which ought to take a call. In any other case folks get tied down… that I really feel additionally results in additional factionalism,” Ms Selja added.
She requested folks to return out from the mindset that sees voters as compartmentalised entities and never supportive of each other. Ms Selja, who’s a Dalit, stated folks from all sections of society in Haryana help her.
“Haryana may give me house. It’s you individuals who have to return out of the mindset that Haryana is like this, Haryana is like that. I can guarantee you that I’ve help from all sections of society. Do not fall into this lure, propagated by vested pursuits. Transfer away and transfer ahead,” she stated.
“All sections have supported the celebration. Dalits have supported. Not simply them, others additionally. We have now to maneuver away from dominance of 1 phase as a result of that is additionally not doing any justice to that one phase. You are isolating them and that does not assist,” Ms Selja stated.
The mixture of exit polls reveals the BJP might find yourself with 27 seats every in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir. One exit ballot, Jist-TIF Analysis, gave the BJP an outdoor margin of 37 seats – the utmost – in Haryana.
Counting is on Tuesday.