Haryana's Karnal seat has been held by two BJP CMs in past decade: Manohar Lal Khattar & Nayab Singh Saini. When Khattar was elected in 2014, he had ended BJP's 18-year drought in the seat.
Hafiz Mohammad Sikandar Malik, from Bandipora’s Gundpora area, contested elections as an Independent, backed by banned organisation Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI) Kashmir.
Saini’s rise in politics has been meteoric. Considered close to Manohar Lal Khattar, he had replaced O.P. Dhankar as Haryana BJP chief last year and took over as CM this year.
Vinesh Phogat defeated BJP's Yogesh Bairagi, INLD's Surender Lather and incumbent Amarjeet Dhanda of the JJP to win Julana assembly constituency for the Congress.
Khursheed Ahmad Sheikh, a govt teacher, took voluntary retirement to contest Jammu & Kashmir assembly elections from the seat held by his brother for two consecutive terms earlier.
Nuh was in news after BJP fielded Sohna MLA Sanjay Singh in an apparent bid to polarise votes in this Haryana constituency that saw violence last year during a VHP yatra.
BJP is leading in Haryana, where most exit polls had projected a comfortable victory for Congress. In Jammu & Kashmir, pollsters have given the NC-Congress alliance a clear edge.
In Haryana, BJP has left Congress in the dust. In J&K, priority for the NC-Congress coalition govt will be restoration of full statehood, says Congress.
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