Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: From Anirudh Chaudhary in Tosham to Savitri Jindal in Hisar, List of Key Candidates and Constituencies

Chandigarh, September 14: The state of Haryana will go to poll on Saturday, October 5, with the results being declared along with Jammu and Kashmir elections on Tuesday, October 8. A total of 90 assembly constituencies will go to vote in a single phase, with parties such as Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), regional parties and Independent candidates in the fray.

While campaigning for the Haryana Vidhan Sabha polls is in full swing, candidates across parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo voters. With less than three weeks remaining for the Haryana Assembly Elections 2024, we take a look at some of the key candidates and their constituencies for the October 5 election. Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: From Nayab Singh Saini in Ladwa to Bhupinder Singh Hooda in Garhi-Sampla Kiloi, List of Key Candidates and Constituencies.

Anirudh Chaudhary

For the October 5 assembly election battle in Tosham, the Congress has fielded Anirudh Chaudhary, a cricket administrator-turned-politician. Anirudh Chaudhary is up against BJP leader Shruti Choudhry, who happens to be his cousin. Both Anirudh and Shruti are grandchildren of the late former Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal. The Tosham Assembly constituency has been a Congress fortress since 2005, with its leader, Kiran Choudhry, winning the Vidhan Sabha poll for a record four terms. However, this year, the Tosham Assembly seat will witness a fight between Bansi Lal's grandchildren after Shruti and her mother, Kiran, left Congress and joined the saffron party.

Om Prakash Dhankar

The BJP has fielded its former state president Om Prakash Dhankar from the Badli assembly constituency. Dhankar is up against sitting MLA and Congress leader Kuldeep Vats. While Dhankar is a Jat leader who served as a former state minister, Vats won the Badli seat in the 2019 assembly elections by defeating Dhankar, who was the then-sitting MLA. It must be noted that last year, Dhankar was replaced as the state unit president by Nayab Singh Saini, who was then a Lok Sabha MP from Kurukshetra.

Udai Bhan

The assembly election in Harayan's Hodal seat will see a direct fight between Congress leader Udai Bhan and BJP candidate Harinder Singh Ramrattan. A seat reserved for the scheduled castes, the BJP decided to drop its sitting MLA Jagdish Nayar and has placed its faith in Ramrattan to win Hodal. In the 2019 Vidhan Sabha polls, Nayar won the Hodal constituency by a margin of over 3,000 votes. The outcome of the Hodal assembly assembly becomes crucial for Congress, which has placed its bet on state unit Chief Udai Bhan, who has been a four-time MLA. Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi Among 40 Star Campaigners for Congress for October 5 Vidhan Sabha Polls.

Savitri Jindal

The Hisar Assembly constituency in Haryana will see a three-way battle between Congress leader Ram Niwas Rara, BJP's sitting MLA Kamal Gupta and India’s richest woman, Savitri Jindal, who has decided to contest as an Independent. Jindal's decision to contest the assembly polls as an Independent came after BJP denied her ticket from Hisar seat and renominated state's Health Minister Kamal Gupta. It must be noted that in March this year, Jindal quit Congress and switched over to the BJP after her son and industrialist Naveen Jindal joined the saffron party. At present, Naveen Jindal is an MP from Kurukshetra.

In the 2019 Vidhan Sabha polls in Haryana the saffron party won 40 seats in the 90-member assembly. On the other hand, the Congress won 31 seats, while the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) bagged 10 seats. The BJP went on to form government in the state by forming an alliance with JJP and Independent candidates with Manohar Lal Khattar taking oath as Chief Minister of the state.

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