In a stunning anti-climax, the BJP proved exit polls wrong to win majority in the Haryana Assembly elections, bagging 48 seats in the 90-member Assembly and adding eight seats to its 2019 tally. The Congress added six seats to its tally compared to the previous elections, but has been kept away from power with just 37 seats.
While the BJP has made history with a third-straight term in Haryana, it’s a mixed bag for sitting chief minister Nayab Singh Saini’s cabinet since eight of his 10 ministers lost their seats. Gian Chand Gupta, the sitting Speaker of the Haryana Assembly, also lost the election to Congress opponent Chander Mohan Bishnoi.
The two ministers who won their seats in Haryana elections 2024 are Mahipal Dhanda from Panipat Rural seat and Mool Chand Sharma from Ballabgarh.
The eight ministers who lost the election are Sanjay Singh, Kanwar Pal Gurjar, Kamal Gupta, Subhash Sudha, Jai Parkash Dalal, Ranjit Singh Chautala, Aseem Goyal and Abhe Singh Yadav. Ranjit Singh Chautala was contesting as an Independent candidate from Rania. Three of these eight outgoing ministers stood third in their respective constituencies.
Minister Kanwar Pal Gurjar, who contested from the Jagadhari Assembly seat, was defeated by Congress candidate Chaudhary Akram Khan by 6,868 votes. While Khan got 67,403 votes, Gurjar got 60,535. Gurjar was the Speaker in the previous Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government. He was appointed as a cabinet minister in the second term.
In Loharu, Mmnister Jai Parkash Dalal was defeated by Congress candidate Rajbir Fartia by 792 votes. Dalal was the agriculture minister when Manohar Lal Khattar was the Haryana chief minister. He was then made the finance minister in the Nayab Singh Saini government. While Dalal got 80,544 votes, Rajbir Fartia got 81,336.
Ranjit Singh Chautala, who was Haryana’s power minister and contested as an Independent candidate from Rania, lost the election and stood third in the tally. INLD-BSP candidate Arjun Chautala won from Rania by 4,191 votes. The first runner-up was Congress’s Sarva Mitra Kamboj.
Kamal Gupta, the health minister in the Nayab Singh Saini government, who contested from Hisar assembly constituency, came in third as well. In Hisar, Independent candidate Savitri Jindal, the country’s richest woman, defeated Congress’s Ram Niwas Rara here by 18,941 votes. While Jindal got 49,231 votes, Rara got 30,290 and Gupta got 17,385 votes.
Congress candidate Nirmal Singh Mohra won the Ambala City seat by a margin of 11,131 votes over BJP’s Aseem Goyal, who was the transport minister in the Nayab Saini government. Mohra got 84,475 votes, while Aseem Goyal came second with 73,344 votes.
In Thanesar, Congress candidate Ashok Kumar Arora defeated Subhash Sudha, who was the local bodies minister in the Saini cabinet. Sudha was defeated by a margin of 3,243 votes. While Arora got 70,076 votes, Sudha got 66,833.
Minister Sanjay Singh, who contested from Nuh, also came in third. Congress candidate Aftab Ahmed won from Nuh by a margin of 46,963 votes. The INLD-BSP candidate came in second with 44,870 votes. Singh got only 15,902 votes. He had won the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections from the Sohna assembly seat.
Abhe Singh Yadav, who was a minister in the Nayab Singh Saini government, lost the election from the Nangal Chaudhry assembly. Congress candidate Manju Choudhary defeated Abhay by a margin of 6,930 votes. While Choudhary got 61,989 votes, Yadav got 55,059.
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