Congress oozed confidence after its solid show in LS polls. However, after Haryana & Maharashtra verdict, its authority as the leader of the INDIA bloc may be questioned.
Party went into 1st assembly session without a CLP leader, and now, even as the winter session is scheduled to begin on 13 November, there is no word on who will get the coveted post.
Congress won more postal ballots than BJP in 34 seats where it lost. The party is using this to allege that EVMs were ‘manipulated’. Postal ballots made up 0.57% of total votes cast.
Congress & BJP chose opposite strategies for 2024 polls. Experts say Congress’s Jat-centric campaign may have led other caste groups to rally behind BJP, which focused on non-Jats.
BJP won 10 of 11 seats in Rao Inderjit’s home turf, the Ahirwal belt. Party functionaries say he wants to dilute Khattar’s influence and have party accommodate his wish list.
Congress won 15 seats of 28 in six districts where Dera Sacha Sauda chief Ram Rahim holds sway; BJP got 10 as caste-based voting patterns played a bigger role.
Haryana has seen good growth, keeping its deficit within limit in recent years. Inclusive development, fixing unemployment, bridging rural-urban inflation gap should be new govt’s priorities.
In 11 seats where Congress finished second, Independents finishing third polled more votes than party's margin of defeat. In a few seats, AAP got more votes than defeat margin of Congress.
Results of Haryana elections also got international attention, contrasting with Kashmir, particularly highlighting wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s victory over BJP on a Congress ticket.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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