Senior Congress leader Bhupendra Singh Hooda is the first choice for Chief Minister of Haryana with 30.8%. After them, CM and BJP leader Nayab Singh Saini is at second place with 22.1 percent. Congress leaders Deepender Singh Hooda and Kumari Selja are at third and fourth positions with 9.5 percent and 4.9 percent respectively. This has come out in the India Today-CVoter exit poll. According to the survey, only 4.5 percent people supported Union Minister and BJP leader Manohar Lal Khattar as the Chief Minister. The special thing is that 32.6 percent men want Bhupendra Singh Hooda to become CM, while 22.5 percent of them supported Nayab Singh Saini. Of the women polled in the exit poll, 28.9 percent chose Hooda as the next Chief Minister of Haryana, while 21.7 percent supported Saini.
According to the survey, 20 percent men want someone other than these names to become the Chief Minister, while 24.6 percent women had this opinion. If we look at it in terms of age, 27.8 percent people in the age group of 18-24 supported Bhupendra Singh Hooda, while 18.2 percent people supported Naib Singh Saini. In the 25-34 age group, 30.6 percent preferred Hooda, while 20% preferred Saini. According to the survey, Hooda is the popular face for the 35-44 age group and 31.5 percent people chose her. 25.4 percent people of this age group found Nayab Singh Saini suitable as the Chief Minister. Support for Hooda has increased among people in the 45-54 age group and 33.1 percent are with him. 32.4 percent people in the 55+ age group have such an opinion. At the same time, Saini has the support of 24.7 percent and 24.4 percent people respectively in these age groups.
What did Hooda say on the question of becoming Chief Minister?
Bhupendra Singh Hooda claimed that Congress will form the government in the state with full majority. He reiterated that the high command will decide on the face of the Chief Minister after taking opinion from the party MLAs. Hooda made this comment after voting for the assembly elections in Haryana was over and several exit polls predicted the Congress’s victory. “We are forming the government with full majority,” he said at his residence in Rohtak. Asked who would be made the chief minister after the Congress comes to power, Hooda reiterated that there is a set process in the party, according to which the opinion of party MLAs will be taken, after which the high command will take a decision. When asked that Kumari Selja and Randeep Singh Surjewala are also contenders for the post of Chief Minister, Hooda replied that politics is such a thing that anyone can aspire, but there is a process that the MLAs will give their opinion, after which The high command will decide.