Kurukshetra: Congress the party won PehowaThanesar and Shahabad Assembly Constituency KurukshetraWhile Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) snatched the chief ministerial post from Ladwa after the results of 2024 state assembly elections on Tuesday.
CM face of BJP Naib Singh SainiIts candidate from Ladwa defeated sitting Congress MLA Mewa Singh by a margin of 16,054 votes. Saini received 70,177 (47.4%) votes, while Mewa Singh received 54,123 (36.55%) votes. Independent candidate Vikramjit Singh Cheema got 11,191 votes, while INLD’s Sapna Barshami got 7,439 votes, while BJP’s dissident Sandeep Garg also got 2,262 votes and it is believed that these three candidates have weakened the chances of Congress candidate’s victory in Ladwa. Did it and benefited BJP. ,
Mewa Singh was giving tough competition to BJP’s Haryana CM Confronted Naib Singh Saini, but Saini defeated him. Naib Singh Saini, whose native village is Mirzapur in Ambala district, was first elected as MLA from Narayangarh Assembly in 2014-2019, where he defeated Congress candidate Ram Kishan by 24,361 votes. Saini was later elected as the Kurukshetra MP in the 2019 parliamentary election when he defeated Congress candidate Nirmal Singh by a huge margin of 3,84,591 votes. Later, Saini was made the CM of Haryana by BJP in place of Manohar Lal Khattar in 2024. After this, Saini was fielded by BJP to contest the by-election from Karnal, where in June 2024, he defeated Tarlochan Singh of Congress by 41,540 votes.
Now, BJP fielded him from Ladwa and he won this seat too and he is likely to become the next CM of Haryana if the saffron party forms the government, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah during the state assembly. Their names were announced as CM faces. Election campaign rallies.
In 2019, as Congress candidate from Ladwa, Mewa Singh defeated the then sitting BJP MLA Pawan Saini by a margin of 12,637 votes. In 2014, BJP’s Pawan Saini had won from Ladwa and in 2009, INLD’s Sher Singh Badshami had won the Ladwa seat.
Speaking to the media along with Subhash Sudha in Kurukshetra, Naib Singh Saini said, ‘BJP is ready to serve Haryana for the third time. On the basis of the work we have done in the last 10 years, we are forming a one-sided government in Haryana for the third consecutive time. Narendra Modi ji has become the Prime Minister for the third time at the Center and under his leadership we have developed Haryana at a fast pace. We have solved the problems of the people honestly and in future also we will continue to take Haryana forward with strength and honesty.
After receiving his election certificate, Naib Saini said, “I heartily thank the people of Ladwa besides the 2.80 crore people of Haryana. I give the credit of this entire victory to Honorable Narendra Modi ji. The people of Haryana have approved his policies because we have worked as per his (Modi’s) guidelines and blessings. I thank the Prime Minister and the senior leadership of my party. I also thank all those party workers who worked tirelessly day and night to ensure BJP’s victory.
In Kurukshetra city, Congress candidate Ashok Arora won from Thanesar assembly, defeating BJP’s Subhash Sudha by a slim margin of 3,243 votes. Arora got 70,076 (48.93%) votes while Sudha got 66,833 (46.67%) votes.
Ashok Arora was earlier elected as MLA from Thanesar in 2009 as an Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate. In 2014, Arora as Congress candidate lost the Thanesar seat to BJP’s Subhash Sudha. In 2019, there was once again a very close contest between Sudha and Arora (Congress), when Sudha won from Thanesar as a BJP candidate by a margin of just 842 votes.
After a gap of 15 years, Congress has won Pehowa constituency as its candidate Mandeep Chattha defeated BJP’s Jai Bhagwan Sharma in a close contest on Tuesday.
Mandeep Chattha defeated Jai Bhagwan by a margin of 6,553 votes, he got 64,548 (50.19%) votes, while Jai Bhagwan got 57,995 (45.10%) votes. INLD candidate Baldev Singh Waraich stood third with only 1772 votes, followed by Jannayak Janata Party’s (JJP) Sukhwinder Kaur with 1253 votes, Sanyukt Sangharsh Party’s Gurnam Singh Charuni with only 1170 votes and Aam Aadmi Party’s Gehal Singh Sandhu with 890 votes. Together they stood third.
Earlier, Congress had won the Pehowa seat in 2009 as its candidate Harmohinder Singh was elected MLA from here. In 2014, INLD’s Jaswinder Singh Sandhu was elected MLA from Pehowa. In 2019, Sandeep Singh Pehowa of BJP was elected MLA as he defeated then elected Mandeep Chattha by a margin of 5,314 votes.
In Shahabad, JJP’s Congress candidate Ram Karan Kala defeated BJP’s Subhash Chand by a margin of 6,441 votes. Kala got 61,050 (50.37%) votes while Subhash Chand got 54,609 (45.05%) votes. Congress had earlier won Shahabad in 2009 when its candidate Anil Dhantori was elected MLA from here as he defeated INLD’s Jitendra Kumar. In 2014, BJP’s Krishna Kumar Bedi defeated Ram Karan, who was contesting as INLD candidate, by a margin of just 562 votes. In 2019, Ram Karan as JJP candidate won from Shahabad by defeating BJP’s Krishna Bedi by a margin of 37,127 votes.
