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Haryana exit poll: Voters wait in queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Rohtak district on October 5, 2024. (PTI)
Exit Poll of Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing a hat-trick of Assembly election wins in the state, while the Congress is hoping to return to power after 10 years
The Haryana exit poll 2024 result will start coming in shortly as the single-day polling for Assembly elections in the state wraps up on Saturday evening.
With more than 2 crore people eligible to vote, the Haryana polls decide the fate of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Vinesh Phogat, besides the JJP’s Dushyant Chautala and 1,027 other candidates.
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing a hat-trick of Assembly election wins in the state, while the Congress is hoping to return to power after 10 years. The counting of votes for Haryana Assembly elections will be taken up on October 8, along with the counting for J&K polls.
A total of 1,031 candidates contested the Haryana election, including 101 women and 464 Independent nominees.
Besides the BJP and the Congress, the key contesting parties are the Aam Aadmi PArty (AAP) and the INLD-BSP and JJP-Azad Samaj Party alliances.
What Happened in 2019 Haryana Elections?
In the 2019 Haryana Assembly polls, the BJP had won 40 of the 90 seats, the Congress 31 and the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) 10. The BJP had formed the government with the support of the JJP while most of the Independent MLAs had also extended support to the saffron party. However, the JJP’s post-poll tie-up with the BJP ended after the latter replaced Manohar Lal Khattar with Saini as the chief minister in March.
This time, the Congress left the Bhiwani seat for its INDIA bloc partner CPI(M), while the BJP did not contest the Sirsa seat, from where Haryana Lokhit Party chief Gopal Kanda sought re-election.
Most seats witnessed a direct fight between the BJP and the Congress.
Who are the Key Candidates in Haryana?
Prominent candidates in the fray in Haryana elections are: Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini (BJP, Ladwa); Leader of Opposition BS Hooda (Congress, Garhi Sampla-Kiloi); Abhay Singh Chautala (INLD, Ellenabad); Dushyant Chautala (JJP, Uchana Kalan); Anil Vij (BJP, Ambala Cantonment); ‘Captain’ Abhimanyu (BJP, Narnaund); OP Dhankar (BJP, Badli); Anurag Dhanda (AAP, Kalayat); and Vinesh Phogat, (Congress, Julana).
From Tosham, former MP Shruti Choudhry of the BJP and Anirudh Chaudhary, both cousins, are contesting. From Dabwali, Devi Lal’s grandson Aditya Devi Lal, an INLD candidate, is taking on the JJP’s Digvijay Singh Chautala, the great grandson of the former deputy prime minister.
The BJP has fielded former chief minister late Bhajan Lal’s grandson Bhavya Bishnoi from Adampur in Hisar while its nominee from Ateli in Mahendragarh is Arti Rao, whose father Rao Inderjit Singh is a Union minister.
Among the Independent candidates are Savitri Jindal (Hisar), Ranjit Chautala (Rania) and Chitra Sarwara (Ambala Cantonment). Taking on Dushyant Chautala from Uchana is the Congress’s Brijendra Singh, son of former Union minister Birender Singh.
A few rebels from both the Congress and the BJP are also in the fray.
