Haryana Election Results: BJP has created history by scoring a hat-trick of victories in the Haryana assembly elections. This time the election field of Haryana was considered difficult for BJP, but the party has achieved a big victory by destroying all the estimates. Haryana’s election results are exactly opposite to the exit polls and these results have surprised even political pundits.
The strategy of changing the Chief Minister in the state is being considered a major reason behind this victory of BJP. To suppress people’s resentment towards former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and to reduce the impact of anti-incumbency, the top leadership of the party had handed over the reins of the state to Naib Singh Saini and Naib Singh Saini has emerged as a hero in the assembly elections. BJP had entered the electoral arena with Saini being declared the CM face. Therefore, he is being considered to have a big role in this victory. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also congratulated Naib Singh Saini on the party’s victory.
CM changed before Lok Sabha elections
The top leadership of BJP had played a big political gamble of changing the Chief Minister even before the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana. Before Naib Singh Saini, the command of Haryana was in the hands of Manohar Lal Khattar. He took oath as the Chief Minister of the state on 26 October 2014 and remained in this post till 12 March 2024. Before the Lok Sabha elections, the top leadership of BJP started feeling the threat of anti-incumbency Ruhan in Haryana. The news of people’s displeasure towards Khattar had also reached the top leadership.
Benefit gained in assembly elections
That is why, during the month of March, while making a big political change in the state, BJP had handed over the command of the state to Naib Singh Saini, a close aide of Khattar and the former state president of BJP. After this, BJP made Khattar contest the elections from Karnal Lok Sabha seat and after winning, he also got a chance to become a minister at the Centre. The benefits of this move of BJP have been seen more in the Assembly elections than in the Lok Sabha elections. In the Lok Sabha elections, the party could win only five seats, but in the Assembly elections, the party has given a historic performance and scored a hat-trick.
Help in reducing people’s anger
Political experts believe that Khattar’s removal from the post of Chief Minister has had a big impact during the assembly elections. With Khattar’s removal from the post of Chief Minister, people’s resentment and anti-incumbency reduced. Naib Singh Saini’s tenure before the elections was very short but even during this time he succeeded in gaining the support of the people by taking many public welfare decisions.
In this way, BJP was successful in giving a message to the voters of Haryana that Saini should be given one more chance as the Chief Minister so that he can take more big decisions regarding the progress of Haryana during his full tenure.
OBC vote bank support
The decision to remove Khattar and make Saini the Chief Minister also proved effective because Saini belongs to the OBC community. Manohar Lal Khattar is a Punjabi whereas through Saini, BJP has succeeded in breaking into the OBC vote bank. This formula of BJP has proved to be a hit because most of the exit polls had predicted the victory of Congress which has proved to be completely wrong.
Balanced the anger of Jats
Jat factor has been considered very important in the politics of Haryana. Jat voters were already very angry with BJP due to the agitation of farmers and wrestlers. Due to the leadership of Congress leader Bhupendra Singh Hooda, Jat voters were completely aligned with the Congress.
In such a situation, the top leadership of BJP tried to woo OBC voters. Through Saini, BJP has achieved a lot of success in this campaign. In the history of Haryana, no party has formed the government by winning elections three times consecutively, but BJP has created history by winning three consecutive elections.
Naib Singh emerged as a hero
Naib Singh Saini has emerged as the hero in this victory of BJP in Haryana. He had already been declared the chief ministerial face by the party. After the exit poll results came out, Naib Singh had said that all the predictions would be proved wrong and BJP would be successful in forming its government in the state for the third consecutive time.
This statement of Naib Singh has proved to be true and the party has once again captured power in Haryana, giving a huge blow to the Congress. The number of OBC voters in Haryana is about 40 percent and this vote bank is considered to have a major contribution in the victory of BJP. After BJP’s victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Naib Singh Saini on telephone and congratulated him for this big victory.
