IN THE MEMORANDUM submitted to the Election Fee on Wednesday, the Congress stated its candidates in Haryana and their polling brokers had found “a obtrusive discrepancy” associated to EVM machines in “a major variety of seats”, and that it had ready a listing of constituencies as an illustrative instance.
The Congress then went on to call seven seats – Karnal, Rewari, Panipat metropolis, Hodal, Kalka and Narnaul. The occasion misplaced these constituencies by margins starting from 610 votes to 35,672 votes, all however one among them to the BJP.
Narnaul
Narnaul was the primary seat named by the Congress as one the place there might have been irregularities, with senior leaders mentioning the identical on Tuesday, in direction of the tip of counting.
Positioned in Mahendragarh, Narnaul was received by the BJP’s Om Prakash Yadav, who defeated the Congress’s Rao Narender Singh by 17,171 votes. Om Prakash, who additionally received from Narnaul in 2014 and 2019, elevated his vote share from final time.
He’s the Minister of State (Impartial cost) for Social Justice and Empowerment, and for Saini & Ardh Sainik (paramilitary) Welfare within the outgoing BJP authorities.
The Congress final received from Narnaul in 1991. The Congress candidate this time, Narender Singh, additionally misplaced the final two occasions from Narnaul, ending third. Each occasions, the candidate line-up was the identical: Winner Om Prakash (BJP), adopted by Kamlesh Saini (Jannayak Janata Occasion) and Narender Singh (Congress) in 2019; and winner Om Prakash (BJP) adopted by Saini (INLD) and Narender Singh (Congress) in 2014.
Earlier than that, in 2009, Narender Singh received from Narnaul, however he was then a candidate of the Kuldeep Bishnoi-led Haryana Janhit Congress (Bhajan Lal). Bishnoi has merged his occasion with the BJP now.
Karnal
This Meeting constituency was represented by former BJP chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar from 2014 onwards, until he moved to the Centre in March this 12 months. Within the 2019 Meeting elections, Khattar received the seat by 45,188 votes. Within the bypoll held for the seat in June, after Khattar moved to the Centre, the present incumbent CM Nayab Singh Saini received, defeating the Congress’s Tarlochan Singh by 41,540 votes.
Within the Meeting polls that simply ended, the BJP moved Saini to Ladwa and fielded Khattar’s shut aide Jagmohan Anand from Karnal. Anand received, defeating the Congress’s Sumita Virk by 33,652 votes.
The Congress final received from Karnal in 2009, when its 2004 winner Sumita Singh retained the seat.
Dabwali
Dabwali noticed a multi-corner contest, together with two members of the prolonged Devi Lal household. Lastly, Aditya Devilal, the grandson of Devi Lal, received on the INLD ticket, defeating sitting Congress MLA Amit Sihag by a slim 610 votes.
Additionally within the race was the JJP’s Digvijay Chautala, the brother of former deputy CM Dushyant Chautala, who completed third however received 35,261 votes.
In 2019 too, Sihag and Aditya had confronted off towards one another. That point, Sihag received Dabwali by 17,645 votes towards Aditya, who was then a BJP candidate.
Hodal
Udai Bhan, the Haryana PCC chief and an in depth aide of Congress frontrunner CM face Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was the Congress candidate from right here. In a end result that was of specific embarrassment for Hooda, Bhan misplaced to the BJP’s Harinder Singh by 2,595 votes.
Whereas Udai Bhan received from this seat in 2014 towards the INLD’s Jagdish Nayar by 11,680 votes, he misplaced to Nayar in 2019 by 3,387 votes. In 2019, Nayar was a BJP candidate.
Kalka
In Kalka, the BJP named former Union minister and ex-Congress chief Venod Sharma’s spouse Shakti Rani Sharma as its candidate barely three days after she joined the occasion. Whereas former BJP Kalka MLA Latika Sharma initially threatened to remain within the race and make Shakti Sharma’s activity tough, the occasion satisfied her to drop out.
Shakti Sharma finally defeated the Congress’s Pradeep Chaudhary by 10,883 votes. In 2019, Choudhary received the seat, defeating the BJP’s Latika Sharma by 5,931 votes.
Panipat Metropolis
The seat was retained by the BJP’s sitting MLA, Pramod Kumar Vij, by 35,672 votes, defeating the Congress’s Varinder Kumar Shah. Vij confirmed a small drop in his victory margin from 2019, when he defeated the Congress’s Sanjay Aggarwal by over 39,000 votes.
There was a BJP insurgent within the contest, former MLA Rohita Rewari, who contested as an Impartial and received 15,546 votes. However nonetheless the Congress’s Shah couldn’t win.
The Congress final received this seat in 2009, when its candidate Balbir Pal Shah defeated the BJP’s Sanjay Bhatia by 12,159 votes.
Rewari
The seat was seen as a stronghold of senior Congress chief and the chairman of its OBC Division, Capt Ajay Singh Yadav. However in 2019, his son Chiranjeev Rao, who’s married to RJD chief Lalu Prasad’s daughter, scraped by way of from Rewari by simply 1,317 votes, defeating the BJP’s then candidate Sunil Kumar.
This time, the BJP’s Laxman Singh Yadav defeated Chiranjeev by 28,769 votes.
Nevertheless, on this seat, the Congress prospects might have been broken by the Aam Aadmi Occasion, with its candidate Satish Yadav getting 18,427 votes.
Earlier than the present Meeting elections, the BJP had received Rewari solely as soon as, in 2014, when Randhir Singh Kapriwas had defeated the INLD’s Satish Yadav by 45,466 votes.
