Haryana BJP rushes to placate Dalits before assembly polls, Congress looks to blunt rival's OBC push

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Gurugram: Alarmed by Jat and Scheduled Caste (SC) voters coming together in support of the INDIA bloc candidates in Haryana in this years Lok Sabha polls, Chief Minister Nayab Saini has initiated measures to reach out to the Dalits, including speedy implementation of government schemes, as assembly polls are due in the state this October...

The BJP, in power in the state and at the Centre, won five of Haryanas 10 Lok Sabha seats, while the Congress, which is leading the INDIA bloc, won the remaining five..

Former CM and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda is said to have told party MLAs to increase efforts to win over especially urban voters who chose the BJP in large numbers this election, as well as the OBCs..

While a Congress legislator had told ThePrint that Hooda directed party MLAs at a meeting of the Congress Legislature Party Monday to check the BJPs OBC push and reach out to urban voters, the former Haryana CM played it down...

Except for Congress leaders Deepender Hooda from Rohtak and Kumari Selja from Sirsa, who led their rivals in rural as well as urban assembly segments, all other Congress candidates trailed behind their BJP rivals in urban assembly segments despite winning their seats...

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