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Gurugram: In its first list of candidates for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has tried to play all cards in order to score a hat-trick in the state despite strong anti-incumbency sentiment...
Jyoti Mishra, a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi, told The Print that the BJPs first list for the Haryana Assembly elections reflects a calculated strategy to counter anti-incumbency while carefully assessing the local influence of sitting MLAs...
This approach comes as the resurgent Congress party looks to capitalise on any weaknesses in the BJPs candidate selection or governance record, she said.. Jyoti added that the party has also recognised turncoats, including Shruti Choudhry, who was earlier in Congress, and three Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) MLAs..
The BJPs Badshahpur ticket to Rao Narbir Singh, who won the 2014 Assembly elections from the same seat and became a cabinet minister in Khattars government, is being seen as a move by the party to snub Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh..
In the 2019 Assembly elections, Rao Inderjit Singh had denied a ticket to Rao Narbir Singh who announced earlier that he would contest as a Congress candidate if the BJP were to deny him a ticket...
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