Gurgram: We are going to appoint Bhupinder Singh Hooda because the chief of the Congress Meeting (CLP), Rao Narender Singh as Chief of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC), and appoint the mixture of the JAT-OBC of Haryana parliament from the mixture of the CLP chief and the primary main posts of HPCC.
For the primary time in practically 20 years, 18 to be exact – Haryana Meeting management doesn’t have a Dalit chief. Since 2007, the JAT-DALIT mixture has led to the place of opposition/CM and president of Haryana Meeting.
Forward of the 2024 state meeting elections, the mixture of Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Udai Bhan’s JAT-Dalit in Haryana Meeting management has boosted the celebration’s confidence. The Congress wished to achieve energy in Haryana after opposing for ten years. Nevertheless, the decision was surprising not solely to Haryana Meeting Forces, but in addition to the best command of the Meeting.
Since then, it has taken the celebration practically a yr to fill the posts. The announcement of the brand new JAT-OBC mixture in management got here on Monday.
In Haryana, the JAT-DALIT mixture on the celebration’s prime submit started on August 7, 2007, when Phol Chand Mullana was appointed celebration president. The submit has been vacant since Bhajanal’s resignation in 2006. Then, in 2007, Bhajanal launched his celebration, Haryanajan Hit Congress. From Mullana’s time, Hooda was a CLP chief till October 2014 and remained a industrial.
The council chosen Dalit chief after which Sirsa councillor Ashok Tanwar on February 14, 2014, as an alternative choice to Mullana. Tanwar’s tenure as HPCC Chief started simply earlier than the 2014 Lok Sabha election and lasted 202 days over 5 years.
After Huda’s time period as CLP chief led to 2014, JAT chief Kiran Choudhry took over and served from 2014 to 2019, persevering with the JAT-Dalit mixture.
Then, on September 4, 2019, one other Dalit chief, Kumariselja, changed Tanwar forward of the 2019 Haryana Congress ballot. Huda grew to become CLP chief and opposition chief after the 2019 parliamentary vote, and subsequently the JAT-DALIT mixture adopted.
On April 27, 2022, Dalit chief Udai Bang changed Kumari Serja, leaving the JAT-DALIT mixture by 2024 Lok Sabah and Congressional polls.
Haryana’s SC (scheduled caste) voters had been break up into BJP (40%) and Congress (42%) within the 2024 meeting elections, in line with Centre for Democrat and Social Research (CSDS)-Lokniti knowledge.
The Congress countered the BJP 400-PAAR slogan by performing higher within the election of Lok Saba in the identical yr and counting on the celebration’s marketing campaign on threats to the structure. It has received 68% of Dalit votes, nicely over the 24% secured by the BJP.
After the Lok Sabha ballot, the Dalit subclassification of the BJP authorities was geared toward begging the poorest individuals within the Balmikiss, significantly in an effort to assist the celebration compete in parliamentary elections when it comes to Dalit votes.
Dalits in Haryana, which account for 20-21% of the state’s inhabitants, had been congressional pollers. Nevertheless, some cracks are showing.
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There are not any Dalits Management of Haryana Legislature
That is the primary pairing of JAT-OBCs within the prime submit in Parliament. The one and solely factor that Congress utilized this formulation was from December 1972 to July 1977. This was in the course of the interval when OBC chief Raoniharsingh was the chief of the Nationwide Social gathering. Bansi Lal of JAT was the CLP chief on the time. He held the submit from 1968 to 1975.
This yr marks the primary time that the Chief of Haryana’s state meeting has turn out to be OBC chief. The celebration didn’t have an OBC Prime Minister.
Rao Villendar Singh, who served as prime minister for 241 days in 1967, represented his personal Vishal Haryana celebration.
The Congress might have determined to go along with a JAT-OBC pairing, however the announcement made the Dalits not absolutely represented within the celebration’s prime submit.
Different events in Haryana would not have Dalits within the prime submit.
The JAT-OBC pairing in Haryana’s management appears uncommon for Congress, towards the background of the management of Rahul Gandhi, against the opposition Rahul Gandhi’s Lok Sabah, who has been selling Dalit management since changing into extra energetic in politics. Gandhi additionally grew to become the embarrassment of the then CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda after shock Mirchpur in 2010 and was persecuted by the dominant JAT group of Dalits.
Jyoti Mishra, assistant professor of political science at Amity College in Mohali, advised The Print that in his appointment as HPCC chief of Rao Narendar Singh, he as soon as famous that the Congressional Excessive Command had copied the BJP’s OBC push into politics however in all probability not calculating the prices.
“The transfer will minimize down on the Dalit threads of their celebration that chief Rahul Gandhi has been spinning very laborious through the years,” Mishra hints at an underestimation of the Dalits by 2007.
Earlier than Phol Chand Mullana took over the state president of Congress on August 27, 2007, it was the one time that Dalit Chief of Dalbir Singh, father of HPCC Chief Kumari Selja, had the chief of Congress for 220 days from November 3, 1979 to June 10, 1980.
There have by no means been any commercials in Haryana earlier than.
Kushalpal, a political analyst who’s Radwa principal of Indira Gandhi Nationwide Faculty, advised the print that whereas Raona Lendar Singh’s appointment as PCC chief seems to be an try to take queues from the BJP, it seems inevitable given the virtually non-existent OBC base in Congress.
“As a result of distance of the OBC, together with Yadavs, Gujjars, Sainis, Kambojs, and extra, the Congress has nearly utterly misplaced its assist base, together with South Haridabad, Faridabad, Palwal, Rewari and Mahendraga districts, together with South Haridabad, the one district in South Hariena, together with South Hariena districts, BJP,” he mentioned.
Pal mentioned that the elevation of Rao Narendar Singh would profit Huda personally as nicely. His son Deepunda Sinhuda’s Lohatak Rokusaba sheet has a Cos Reassembly section beneath. Kosri has a substantial variety of Rao Narendar Singh duck caste voters.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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