Lok Sabha Polls 2024: Will BJP retain all seats in Haryana?
Close to the national capital, Haryana has ten Lok Sabha seats, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has shown a strong presence in the last two parliamentary polls held in 2014 and 2019.
In the 2014 elections, the saffron party secured seven seats, while Congress was restricted to a single seat from Rohtak, and Haryana’s Indian National Lok Dal won two seats - Sirsa and Hisar.
However, in 2019 when Narendra Modi was elected as Prime Minister for the second consecutive term, BJP had made a clean sweep in Haryana as it won all ten seats, including Ambala, Bhiwani Mahendragarh, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hisar, Karnal, Kurukshetra, Rohtak, Sirsa, and Sonipat.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s vote-share in the state was 34.8 percent, Congress’ 23 percent, and Indian National Lok Dal had received 24.4 percent.
However, the vote-share of the party increased to 58.2 percent in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, while Congress managed 28.5 percent, and Indian National Lok Dal’s reduced drastically to 1.9 percent.
Along with the Lok Sabha polls, the state is also preparing for the assembly polls to elect 90 members as the current tenure of the coalition government formed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) is set to end on November 3, 2024.
For the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the AAP and Congress have forged an alliance. Under the seat-sharing pact, the Congress will field its candidates on nine seats, while AAP candidate Sushil Gupta will be contesting from the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat.
Earlier, the AAP was focusing on three seats, but eventually settled for one after weeks-long negotiations with the Congress party.
