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Haryana: State leadership failed Rahul Gandhi’s strategy

By Vinod Kumar Shukla- 08 Oct 2024
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New Delhi (08.10.2024): Apparently this time round, the BJP seems to have surprised the Congress in Haryana where the grand old party was expected to get not less than 65 seats in Assembly polls but results have a different tale to tell. The BJP will be forming the government in Haryana for the third consecutive terms which is unprecedented. What have been the factors that led to such results in the state. What has gone wrong with the Congress and what has worked with the BJP? 
What has worked with the BJP?
  • The BJP’s new found strategy to change CM seems to have worked
  • New social engineering of the BJP for Haryana among 36 caste groups
  • Focusing more on other community than Jat
  • Once again micro-management of Amit Shah at booth level at play
  • Unapologetic Hindutva plank that it is now adopting all across
  • BJP addressed Agniveer issue in its manifesto
  • Problem with Family cards have also been taken care of by the party
  • Strategically it managed to force AAP to contest alone
  • Learning from 2014 Lok Sabha polls, it has done everything to win over Dalit votes 
  • Unlike earlier, the BJP contested the elections in a low pitch strategically 
What has gone wrong for the Congress
  • Central leadership missing during crucial campaign time including Gandhies
  • Differences among Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja and Randeep Singh Surjewala
  • Rahul Gandhi’s statement at the peak of elections that consecration of Ram Temple was a song and dance event
  • Congress failed to keep even those SC votes that voted it in 2024 Lok Sabha elections
  • Congress overdone Jat politics but Jat votes got divided into four 
  • Bhupinder Singh Hooda held central leadership on ransom by not allowing them to do anything in Haryana
  • Hooda committed mistake by not forging alliance with AAP despite Rahul Gandhi insisting that polled 1.5 per cent votes.
  • Selja appeared a reluctant campaigner all through the elections and bringing Ashok Tanwar to Congress two days before polls annoyed Dalit voters
  • Promise to provide free rural housing has not worked as Rs 1 lakh scheme worked in LS polls
  • Wrestler’s card did not work in the Assembly elections 
  • There were too many chief ministerial candidates in the Congress.
(By Vinod Kumar Shukla)
(PHOTO: Courtsey NDTV)

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