Haryana Assembly Elections: All You Need To Know
Haryana will be the second state that goes to the polls along with Maharashtra on Monday. Over 1.8 crore voters are expected to exercise their franchise to elect 90 representatives. 1,108 candidates are in the fray for those 90 seats.
Manohar Lal Khattar, the first Bharatiya Janata Party leader to hold the chief minister's post in Haryana, is seeking a second term. He expressed confidence that his party will secure close to 75 seats in the 90-member state assembly.
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress is also looking to revive his fortunes after a defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. But the Congress suffered a jolt after its state unit President Ashok Tanwar quit and declared his support for Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janta Party.
Abhay Chautala's Indian National Lok Dal is also in the electoral fray. JJP, a breakaway faction of the INLD, has fielded former Border Security Force constable Tej Bahadur Yadav against Khattar from Rohtak.
A key factor in the election will be the presence of swing seats. 19 of the 90 seats have been swing seats, some of them since the first election held in 1967.
Will the BJP manage to cross the 70-seat mark or will the opposition manage to spring a surprise? We will find out on Oct. 24.
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