Chief of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday alleged that there have been discrepancies within the voter checklist for final yr’s Haryana meeting elections.
Mr Gandhi confirmed a photograph of a lady who appeared within the voter checklist 22 occasions in 10 cubicles in Rai Meeting constituency and mentioned this confirmed that this was an “intensive operation”.
Instantly after the October 2024 polls, the Congress submitted a memorandum to the Election Fee (EC) through which it mentioned candidates and polling brokers in Haryana had discovered “obvious discrepancies” associated to EVM machines in “a big variety of seats” and ready a listing of constituencies for illustration functions.
The Congress then nominated seven seats – Karnal, Rewari, Panipat metropolis, Hodar, Kalka and Narnaul. The get together misplaced in these constituencies by a margin of 610 to 35,672 votes, shedding all however one vote to the BJP.
Rai
The BJP gained the seat within the 2019 and 2024 polls by present state presidents Mohan Lal Badri and Krishna Galawat, respectively. The margin of victory in 2019 was simply over 2,600 votes, whereas final yr it was simply over 4,600 votes.
In 2014, Congress’ Jai Tirath Dahiya gained the seat defeating his nearest rival by a margin of simply three votes.
Narnaul
Narnaul was the primary seat talked about by parliament as a possible supply of fraud, with senior leaders mentioning the identical in direction of the tip of vote counting.
Narnaul in Mahendragarh was gained by Om Prakash Yadav of the BJP defeating Rao Narender Singh of the Congress by a margin of 17,171 votes. Om Prakash, who was elected from Narnaul in 2014 and 2019, elevated his vote share from the earlier elections.
He’s the Minister of State (Unbiased Cost) for Social Justice and Empowerment and Saini and Ardh Sainik Welfare within the outgoing Bharatiya Janata Social gathering authorities.
The final time Congress gained from Narnaul was in 1991. Congress candidate Narender Singh additionally misplaced from Narnaul twice up to now and completed third. The lineup of candidates in each circumstances was the identical, with the winner in 2019 being Om Prakash (Bharatiya Janata Social gathering), adopted by Kamlesh Saini (Jannayak Janata Social gathering) and Narender Singh (Congress). In 2014, Om Prakash (BJP) gained, adopted by Saini (INLD) and Narender Singh (Congress).
Earlier than that, in 2009, Narender Singh was elected from Narnaul, then a candidate of the Kuldeep Bishnoi-led Haryana Janhit Congress (Bhajan Lal). Bishnoi has now merged his get together with the BJP.
Karnal
This parliamentary constituency was represented by former Bharatiya Janata Social gathering chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar from 2014 till he was transferred to the Heart in March final yr. Within the 2019 parliamentary elections, Mr. Qatar gained the seat by a margin of 45,188 votes. Within the polls held for the seat in June after Khatar moved to the Centre, incumbent CM Nayab Singh Saini gained by defeating Congress’s Tarlochan Singh by a margin of 41,540 votes.
Within the just-concluded meeting polls, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering changed Saini with Ladwa and fielded Khattar’s shut aide Jagmohan Anand from Karnal. Anand gained by defeating Congress’ Smita Virk by a margin of 33,652 votes.
The final time Congress gained from Karnal was in 2009, when 2004 winner Smita Singh retained the seat.
dabwali
Dabwali watched a multi-corner contest that included two members of the Devi Lal prolonged household. In the long run, Devi Lal’s grandson Aditya Devilal gained on the INLD ticket, defeating sitting Congress MP Amit Sihag by a margin of simply 610 votes.
JJP’s Digvijay Chautala, youthful brother of former deputy CM Dushyant Chautala, additionally participated within the race and got here third with 35,261 votes.
Sihag and Aditya fought in opposition to one another in 2019 as properly. At the moment, Mr. Sihag defeated Mr. Dabwali by a margin of 17,645 votes over Mr. Aditya, who was then the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s candidate.
hodal
Uday Bhan, the Haryana PCC chief and an in depth aide of Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Congress’ most distinguished CM face, was the Congress candidate from right here. In a very embarrassing consequence for Mr. Hooda, Mr. Bhan misplaced to the BJP’s Harinder Singh by a margin of two,595 votes.
Uday Bhan had gained from this seat in 2014 in opposition to INLD’s Jagdish Nayar by a margin of 11,680 votes, however misplaced to Nayar in 2019 by a margin of three,387 votes. In 2019, Nayyar was a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering.
rise up
In Kalka, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering nominated Shakti Rani Sharma, former Union minister and spouse of former Congress chief Venod Sharma, as its candidate simply three days after becoming a member of the get together. Former BJP Kalka MLA Latika Sharma initially threatened to remain within the race and make Shakti Sharma’s job troublesome, however the get together satisfied her to give up.
In the long run, Shakti Sharma defeated Congress’ Pradeep Chaudhary by a margin of 10,883 votes. In 2019, Chaudhary gained the seat by defeating Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s Latika Sharma by a margin of 5,931 votes.
Panipat metropolis
The seat was retained by Pramod Kumar Vij, the sitting MLA of the BJP, defeating Varinder Kumar Shah of the Congress by a margin of 35,672 votes. Vij had defeated Congress’ Sanjay Agarwal by a margin of over 39,000 votes in 2019, however the margin of victory has narrowed barely.
Rohita Rewari, a insurgent and former MLA from the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering, entered the competition as an unbiased and secured 15,546 votes. However even then the Shah of Congress couldn’t win.
The Congress final gained this seat in 2009, when candidate Balbir Pal Shah defeated the BJP’s Sanjay Bhatia by a margin of 12,159 votes.
Rewari
This seat was thought-about the house of senior Congress chief and OBC part chairman Captain Ajay Singh Yadav. However in 2019, his son Chiranjeev Rao, who’s married to RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter, emerged victorious from Rewari by simply 1,317 votes, defeating the then Bharatiya Janata Social gathering candidate Sunil Kumar.
This time, Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s Laxman Singh Yadav defeated Chiranjiev by a margin of 28,769 votes.
Nonetheless, on this seat, the Congress’s prospects could have been harm by the Aam Aadmi Social gathering, whose candidate Satish Yadav secured 18,427 votes.
Earlier than the 2024 meeting elections, the BJP had gained solely as soon as in Rewari in 2014 when Randhir Singh Kapriwas defeated INLD’s Satish Yadav by a margin of 45,466 votes.
