The Congress on Thursday night time introduced its candidates for eight of Haryana’s 9 Lok Sabha seats, together with former Union Minister Kumari Selja from Sirsa and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda from Rohtak. Selja will face her former colleague and BJP candidate Ashok Tanwar within the Sirsa-SC Lok Sabha constituency. Selja and Tanwar are each former Haryana Congress chiefs, and the seat is predicted to be hotly contested. Selja beforehand represented the Sirsa-SC constituency. She is at present the Congress’ normal secretary and accountable for the get together’s Uttarakhand actions.
Divanshu Budhiraja, president of the get together’s Haryana youth wing, has been fielded for the Karnal seat, the place he’ll face former state chief minister and BJP candidate Manohar Lal Khattar. The Congress has fielded former MP Jai Prakash from the Hisar constituency, denying the ticket to Brijendra Singh, who beforehand represented the seat as a BJP MP earlier than switching sides a couple of days in the past. Brijendra Singh is the son of former Union Minister Birender Singh, who additionally rejoined the Congress after a decade with the BJP.
Deepender Hooda, the son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will face Arvind Sharma of the BJP for the Rohtak Lok Sabha seat. Deepender has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency thrice earlier than. The Congress fielded Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad. The get together’s listing additionally consists of two sitting MLAs: Varun Choudhary from Ambala-SC and former Haryana minister Rao Dan Singh from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh.
Varun Choudhary is the son of Phool Chand Mullana, the previous state Congress chief. Shruti Choudhary, a former MP from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh and daughter of senior Congress chief and MLA Kiran Choudhary, was not included on this listing. Instead, the get together nominated Rao Dan Singh, a B S Hooda loyalist, for the seat.
The Congress is contesting 9 of Haryana’s ten Lok Sabha seats. AAP, a member of the opposition INDIA bloc, will run for the Kurukshetra seat. The Congress has but to announce its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The listing consists of a number of loyalists of former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh.
Rival events, together with the ruling BJP, had attacked the Congress for allegedly delaying the announcement of candidates for Haryana’s Lok Sabha seats. Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and different rival get together leaders accused the Congress of withdrawing from the competition attributable to concern of defeat. Some rival leaders additionally claimed that the Congress was unable to announce candidate names attributable to infighting inside its Haryana unit.
On March 13, the ruling BJP named candidates for six Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, three days earlier than the final election was introduced.Â
On March 24, the get together introduced the names of its remaining 4 state candidates. Haryana will vote within the sixth section of the Lok Sabha election on May 25, with the notification issued on April 29.
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