| Congress, INLD yet to announce candidates for Gurugram seat | | |  Agencies
GURUGRAM, Apr 18: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Jannayak Janta Party have fielded their candidates from the Gurugram seat, while the Opposition parties Congress and Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) are yet to finalize their candidates.
Rao Inderjeet Singh will fight from the BJP seat while Haryanvi Singer Rahul Yadav alias Fazzailpuria will fight on the JJP seat.
The Gurugram seat comprises nine Assembly segments including Bawal, Rewari, Pataudi, Badshahpur, Gurugram, Sohna, Nuh, Ferozepur Jhirka and Punahana.
The constituency is a general seat and not reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs). The BJP, the Congress and the INLD are the main parties in the constituency.
Rao Inderjit Singh represented the constituency three times in a row in 2009, 2014 and 2019.
Political observers said that the BJP has already taken advantage of the early announcement of the candidate.
"The Congress should not delay in announcing the party candidate for the Gurugram seat, which is set to be a direct contest," said an expert.
The Congress and INLD have a good presence in the segment and the potential to influence the outcome of the election," it added.
Meanwhile, the Congress sources said suggestions are undergoing within the central party leadership, which held a meeting in Delhi recently to finalize their candidates.
The sources revealed that the party leadership discussed the weaknesses and strengths of all the candidates in the meeting.
Likewise, The INLD seems to be taking a longer time to finalise its nominee.
As per data from the Election Commission, there are 25,21,332 voters in the Gurugram constituency at present.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, BJP leader Rao Inderjit Singh won the seat with a margin of 3,86,256 votes.
He was polled 8,81,546 votes. He defeated Congress candidate Captain Ajay Singh who got 4,95,290 votes. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate Chaudhary Rais Ahmad stood third with 26,756 votes in the constituency.
Apart from this, a BJP candidate from Gurugram Lok Sabha seat, Rao Inderjit Singh said that the public mood ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is in favour of BJP.
He said that there is massive support among the farmers and the working class for the BJP.
Rao made this statement while inaugurating his Lok Sabha election office in Sector-15 in Gurugram on Wednesday.
"BJP's aim is the development of every section. There has been tremendous development in every sector in the last 10 years under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi," Singh said.
Speaking on BJP's election manifesto, Rao Inderjit Singh said that it has been made keeping in mind every section and every person of the country.
Prime Minister Modi has promised in the BJP's manifesto to make all four classes, poor, youth, food givers and women, he said.
"Roads, highways and railway networks are getting strengthened in the country and the state as well. Basic facilities are easily available to the people. Under the leadership of PM Modi, India's economy has moved from 11th to fifth place in ten years and in the next five years, India will be the third largest economy in the world," Rao said.
Taking a dig at the opposition he said opposition governments did caste politics in Haryana but now the BJP's slogan of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas and Prayas' is being practised. He said that there is no challenge for him in Gurugram Lok Sabha.
The Ahir stalwart said that the people of Gurugram Lok Sabha love Prime Minister Modi and believe in Modi's guarantees.
People want development, hence the voters have made up their minds unilaterally in favour of BJP in the elections, he added. |
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