BJP’s preparations for Haryana assembly elections intensify, Manifesto committee announced, see which leaders got a place

The Haryana BJP on Monday constituted a manifesto committee headed by senior leader OP Dhankar for the state assembly elections scheduled for October 1. According to a party statement, state party president Mohan Lal Badoli announced the formation of the committee, which will have 14 other members.

The statement said that the committee will be headed by BJP national secretary and former Haryana minister OP Dhankar. The 14 other members include senior leaders Abhimanyu, Ranbir Gangwa, Vipul Goyal, Kiran Chaudhary, Bhavya Bishnoi and Sunita Duggal.

Let us tell you that the Election Commission had announced the date of 90 assembly elections in Haryana on Friday. The elections will be held in a single phase in the state on October 1 and the results will be declared on October 4. Last time, i.e. in the 2019 assembly elections, votes were cast in a single phase. Then votes were cast for all the seats of Haryana Assembly on 21 October 2019. The election results were announced on 24 October. In the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections, 68.20 percent of the voters exercised their franchise.

In the Haryana Assembly elections 2019, BJP emerged as the largest party by winning 40 seats with 36.7 percent vote share. At that time, Congress got 28.2 percent votes and the party stood second with 31 seats. Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) won 10 seats with 14.9 percent vote share, Haryana Lokhit Party won one seat with less than one percent vote share. Seven independents and one other also succeeded in reaching the assembly by winning the elections. No party could reach the magic figure of 46 members required for majority.

After the election results, BJP came into active mode and formed the government with the support of JJP, Haryana Lokhit Party and independents. Before the Lok Sabha elections, BJP broke the alliance with JJP and made Nayab Singh Saini the CM in place of Manohar Lal Khattar.

BJP won the elections for Haryana Assembly in 2014 for the first time. BJP won 47 seats and formed the government with absolute majority. Then INLD came second by winning 19 seats and Congress came third with 15 seats. In the 2019 elections again, no party could reach the majority figure and BJP emerged as the largest party with 40 seats. Congress’s caravan stopped at 31 seats and the newly-formed Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) won 10 seats. Chautala family’s party INLD could win only one seat.