NEW DELHI: Kumari Selja, senior Congress chief from Haryana and a outstanding Dalit face of the grand previous social gathering, has added an attention-grabbing new twist to the electoral battle in Haryana, which is able to vote on October 5 to elect a brand new authorities.
Selja, who’s AICC common secretary and Congress MP from Sirsa, has stayed away from social gathering’s campaigning amid reviews that she is sad over being sidelined throughout ticket distribution for the meeting elections.The Congress marketing campaign in Haryana has been dominated by former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who, reviews say, is asking the photographs inside the social gathering, a lot to the discomfort of different senior leaders from the state like Selja and Randeep Singh Surjewala.
The BJP has been fast to capitalise on Selja’s reported “discontent” towards Hooda and accuse the Congress of insulting dalit leaders within the social gathering. Union dwelling minister Amit Shah led this assault focusing on Rahul Gandhi at an election rally for insulting “sister” Selja. Actually, days earlier than Amit Shah’s assault, former BJP chief minister ML Khattar had invited Selja to hitch the saffron social gathering.
As anticipated, Selja rejected BJP’s overtures and stated “I’m a Congressperson, I’ll stay a Congressperson”. “Since I used to be silent they (the BJP) began speaking however there isn’t a such factor, in addition they comprehend it, they have been additionally doing politics however they know and everybody is aware of, Selja is a Congressi,” the Congress chief instructed businesses. She accused the BJP of utilizing her subject to divert consideration from the failures of its authorities and promised to hitch the social gathering marketing campaign quickly.
Politically appropriate statements however, the very fact stays that the Congress could stand to lose if the BJP manages to drive dwelling the notion of “sad Selja” within the poll-bound state. Haryana has 90 seats out of which 17 are reserved for the Scheduled Castes.
Within the 2019 meeting elections, Congress received 7 of those seats whereas the BJP may bag 5. Of the remainder, JJP took 4 whereas one was received by an impartial. The BJP’s 2019 tally was 4 lower than its 2014 rating of 9 seats, whereas the Congress gained 3 seats in comparison with 2014 polls. From 2014 to 2019, the ruling social gathering misplaced 3 seats – Mulana, Sadhura and Israna – to the Congress, whereas the grand previous social gathering misplaced one seat – Hodal – to the BJP.
Clearly, the Congress wouldn’t need to expend the benefit it had gained on these 17 seats in 2019. Selja has introduced to hitch the social gathering marketing campaign from September 26. She has met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and has reiterated her dedication to the social gathering. Nevertheless, it can be crucial that Selja and Hooda, the 2 prime leaders of the state, stay on the identical web page, not simply within the run as much as elections but in addition after the outcomes are out.
Within the Lok Sabha elections earlier this 12 months, the Congress consolidated its 2019 meeting positive aspects with a powerful exhibiting. It wrested 5 seats from the BJP to make the scoreline 5-5 within the state. The social gathering is assured of returning again to energy within the state after 10 years and wouldn’t need factionalism to play the spoilsport.
In spite of everything, Congress has seen the opposed impression of factionalism in Rajasthan the place Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot have been engaged in a bitter tussle for almost 3 years and the social gathering ultimately misplaced its authorities within the state to BJP.
