Haryana BJP submits panel of probable candidates

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Haryana BJP submits panel of probable candidates

Saturday, 23 March 2019 | PNS | Chandigarh

The State election committee of Haryana BJP has submitted the panel of probable candidates on 10 Lok Sabha seats in the State to the party high command.

The State party election committee met in New Delhi on Thursday evening and discussed the probable candidates after which the panel was submitted to the party high command. Kalraj Mishra, incharge for the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana, Chief Minister Manohar Lal, party’s Haryana incharge Anil Jain, party State chief Subhash Barala among others were present during the meeting.

Subash Barala, Haryana BJP chief, while talking to the mediapersons on Friday said the State election committee has submitted the panel to the BJP high command. We expect that the candidates will be announced soon by the BJP central election committee, he said.

Commenting on probable candidates, he said that the ticket of sitting BJP MPs from Karnal and Kurukshetra is being cancelled and new faces will be fielded from there.

Apart from this, winnable candidates will be fielded from 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, he said.

Notably, the BJP had in 2014 general elections contested eight seats out of 10 and left Hisar and Sirsa to its alliance partner at that time, Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) of former CM Bhajan Lal’s son Kuldeep Bishnoi.

The BJP had won seven seats, losing the Rohtak seat to Deepender Hooda of the Congress while its alliance partner HJC had lost both seats to the INLD.

Sources said that the election committee has sent the names of sitting MPs Rao Inderjit Singh and Krishan Pal Gurjar from Gurgram and Faridabad parliamentary seats respectively.

For Sonepat seat, the probable candidates include sitting MP Ramesh Chander Kaushik, IAS Brijendra Singh, son of Union Minister Birender Singh, CM’s media advisor Rajiv Jain, Krishna Gahlawat.  From Jat dominated Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency, the party has shortlisted names of sitting MP Dharmabir, Abhay Singh Yadav and Somvir Sanghwan, sources said.

For the prestigious Rohtak parliamentary seats, the names of former MP Arvind Sharma, Cabinet Minister OP Dhankar and Shamsher Singh Kharkara have been sent. The three-time MP Arvind Sharma, a prominent Brahmin leader had joined the BJP recently and had represented the Sonepat Lok Sabha seat in 1996 as an independent candidate and Karnal Lok Sabha seat in 2004 and 2009 as a Congress leader.

Congress’ Deepender Singh Hooda is a three-time MP from Rohtak and had in the 2014 polls defeated Cabinet Minister OP Dhankar, who was BJP’s nominee and INLD’s nominee Shamsher Singh Kharkara.

For Karnal seat, the names of Cabinet Minister Ram Bilas Sharma, Sanjay Bhatia, an aide of Chief Minister and Kiran Chopra, wife of sitting BJP member Ashwani Chopra, Chandra Prakash Kathuriya, advocate Ved Pal are among the probable candidates.

Notably, Union Minister Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, the seven-time BJP MP had expressed interest to contest from Karnal constituency.

Names of singer Hans Raj Hans and party leader Sunita Duggal is submitted for Sirsa constituency (reserved) while MLA Nayab Saini, MLA Pawan Saini, Harpal Chika and Dhuman Singh Kirmach are probable candidates for Kurukshetra seat.

BJP’s sitting MLA Raj Kumar Saini from Kurukshetra had turned rebel and had floated his own party.

Probable candidates for Hisar seat are Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu and IAS Brijendra Singh and Ashok Goyal. Ambala sitting MP Rattan Lal Kataria’s wife Banto is among the leaders named in the Ambala panel.

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