The BJP’s win within the Haryana elections on Tuesday was the results of a number of components however, in the long run, it got here right down to its potential to keep up its dominance within the city seats and maintain on to the constituencies in rural areas.
The social gathering swept the seats bordering Delhi, successful 18 of the 20 constituencies. It gained Gohana, Sonipat, Kharkhauda, and Rai in Sonipat district; Gurgaon, Sohna, Badshahpur, and Pataudi in Gurgaon district; Palwal and Hodal in Palwal district; Faridabad, Faridabad NIT, Badhkal, Ballabhgarh, and Tigaon in Faridabad district; and Rewari, Bawal, and Kosli in Rewari district. It wrested management of 5 of those from the Congress: Sonipat, Gohana, Kharkhauda, Faridabad NIT, and Rewari. One of many greatest losses for the Congress got here in Hodal, the place state Congress president Udai Bhan misplaced to the BJP’s Harinder Singh by 2,595 votes.
Ahirwal
The BJP additionally swept its stronghold of Ahirwal, successful 9 of the ten seats within the area, three greater than its 2019 tally. The Congress’s Manju Choudhary secured the only real seat from the area — Nangal Chaudhry — for the Opposition social gathering.
In Ateli, Arti Singh Rao, the daughter of Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh gained by 2,500 votes, with Bahujan Samaj Celebration’s Attar Lal coming second. Tendencies confirmed that Arti, who had declared earlier than elections she would contest the polls with or with out the BJP, was behind Lal till the ultimate few rounds of counting.
In Rewari, the Congress’s sitting MLA Chiranjeev Rao, the son of former Cupboard Minister Captain Ajay Yadav, misplaced to the BJP’s Laxman Yadav by 28,769 votes. He gained the seat in 2019 by a margin of 1,317 votes.
GT Street belt
The BJP additionally elevated its maintain on the “Grand Trunk Street belt” by successful 16 of the 25 Meeting seats throughout six districts. This was three greater than the 2019 tally of 13.
A BJP stronghold over time, main cities similar to Ambala, Panipat, Karnal, Kurukshetra, and Sonipat fall below this area. In contrast to the opposite areas the place totally different castes dominate, the GT Street belt, comprising the Meeting seats of Ambala Metropolis, Ambala Cantonment, Mulana, Radaur, Naraingarh, Sadhaura, Jagadhri, Yamunanagar, Shahbad, Thanesar, Nilokheri, Pundri, Indri, Gharaunda, Karnal, Panipat Rural, Panipat Metropolis, Samalkha, Ganaur, Rai, Kalka, Panchkula and Israna, is demographically totally different and has a big inhabitants of OBCs and higher castes similar to Brahmins, Baniyas, and Khatris.
Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s seat Ladwa is on this belt. The CM gained the constituency with a 47.4% vote share whereas sitting MLA Mewa Singh of the Congress bought 36.55%. The Congress that gained 9 seats within the area in 2019 is right down to eight whereas one constituency — Ganaur — went to an Unbiased.
Nuh out of BJP attain
The one area the BJP couldn’t breach is Mewat that includes the constituencies of Nuh, Ferozepur Jhirka, and Punhana.
In Nuh, the epicentre of final yr’s communal clashes and their aftermath, Deputy Congress Legislature Celebration (CLP) chief within the final Home Aftab Ahmed defeated Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) candidate Tahir Hussain, the son of BJP chief and Waqf Board administrator Zakir Hussain, by 46,963 votes. In Ferozepur Jhirka, the Congress’s Mamman Khan defeated the BJP’s Naseem Ahmed by 98,441 votes, the most important victory margin on this election.
The BJP’s share in these seats additionally decreased, with its former minister Sanjay Singh getting 15,902 votes in Nuh, lower than the 48,273 votes the social gathering had polled when it fielded Zakir Hussain in 2019. Likewise, the social gathering bought 15,486 fewer votes than in 2019 in Ferozepur Jhirka, and in Punhana, polled 5,072 votes towards the 21,421 it obtained in 2019.
Jat belt
The core Jat land is made up of 14 seats in Rohtak, Sonipat, and Jhajjar districts. Of those constituencies, the Congress gained eight, the BJP 4, and two went to Unbiased candidates. With Jats showing to consolidate behind the Congress, the BJP banked on non-Jat votes throughout the state, which appeared to work for it. Nonetheless, it additionally didn’t get washed away within the Jat belt because the 4 seats within the core Jat land present.
Among the many Jat-dominated seats, together with the core space and different components of the state, that the Congress gained are Kaithal, Julana, Tohana, and Garhi Sampla-Kiloi. The BJP took constituencies similar to Uchana Kalan, Safidon, and Gohana. The loss in Uchana Kalan was a shock for the Congress as certainly one of its distinguished Jat leaders, Brijendra Singh, misplaced to the BJP’s Devender Chatar Bhuj Attri by the thinnest margin of 32 votes.
Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda retained the constituency of Garhi Sampla-Kiloi whereas in Kaithal the Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Randeep Singh Surjewala’s son Aditya Surjewala gained his debut contest.
