Monday was a good day for Haryana Congress. In fact, eight former MLAs joined the Congress on May 23 in the presence of former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. Among them, there were many leaders who had left the party after becoming MLA on Congress ticket. Let us tell you that Hooda got all of them included in the Congress.
Those who joined the Congress include Parminder Dhul, former MLA Rajkumar Valmiki, Subhash Chaudhary, Rakesh Kamboj, Sharda Rathore, Jilla Ram Sharma, Naresh Selwal and Ramniwas Ghodela. It is believed that after all of them join the Congress, BJP and Aam Aadmi Party will face a tough challenge and will have to change their electoral strategy in the state.
Who joined the Congress: Ram Niwas Ghodela’s name is also included in the Congress. Ghodela Barwala was the MLA of the Legislative Assembly. He had filed his nomination as an independent in 2019 for not getting a ticket by the Congress. Ghodela is considered a big leader of the OBC class.
At the same time, Sharda Rathore, who went to Congress, became MLA from Ballabhgarh seat of Faridabad district in 2005 and 2009. But in 2019, he left the Congress and joined the BJP. Parminder Singh Dhull’s name is also in this sequence. Dhull had contested the 2009 and 2014 assembly elections from Julana seat in Jind district on an INLD ticket. Parminder also got the victory. But in 2019, he joined BJP and contested the elections but remained at number two.
Naresh Selwal is also named among these eight leaders. In 2009, he was elected MLA from Uklana reserved seat of Hisar district. In 2019, Congress did not give him a ticket, due to which he contested as an independent. For now, he is back in Congress.
Rakesh Kamboj is also in this sequence. He became a Congress MLA in 2005 from Indri seat of Karnal district. After this Kamboj contested in 2009 and 2014 as a candidate of HJC. At the same time, when Congress did not give him a ticket in 2019, he contested as an independent and came second.
At the same time, Rajkumar Valmiki was MLA from Jundla assembly constituency of Haryana from 1991 to 1996. Recently he left Congress and joined Aam Aadmi Party. But now he is joining Congress again. Ram Sharma, who was an MLA from Assandh seat in Karnal district, got 25,000 votes in 2019 as an independent candidate. In the Assandh seat, he is considered to have a good hold on the Brahmin community. In such a situation, it is believed that this will strengthen the Congress.