BJP, Cong nominees eye first win in Pehowa
Eyeing their first win, both Congress and BJP candidates are going full throttle to woo voters in the Pehowa Assembly segment of Kurukshetra district.
While Congress’ Mandeep Chatha, son of veteran Congress leader and former minister Harmohinder Singh Chatha, is working hard to regain the lost ground for the party and BJP candidate Jai Bhagwan Sharma is also going door-to-door to retain the seat for the BJP.
In the 2019, Assembly election, the seat was won by BJP’s Sandeep Singh, however, he was dropped by the party and Kawaljeet Singh Ajrana was fielded. But as the party workers apposed his candidature, Ajrana surrendered the party ticket and the BJP fielded Jai Bhagwan Sharma, who was earlier eyeing the ticket from the Thanesar Assembly seat.
While addressing the gatherings, Mandeep Chatha focuses on issues such as unemployment, farmers, development of Pehowa and civic issues.
Mandeep, who is banking on his father’s works, said, “Development has come to a standstill under the BJP rule and people have decided to bring a change. We have been getting tremendous response from the public. The Pehowa segment witnessed development under the tenure of my father and I want to work for the segment and develop the constituency. Leaders from other parties are joining us everyday, which shows that there is a wave in favour of the Congress and it will form the next government in Haryana.”
Mandeep had contested the Assembly election unsuccessfully on the Congress ticket from Pehowa in 2014 and 2019.
Similarly, Jai Bhagwan Sharma, who contested the Assembly election unsuccessfully in 2014 is confident of retaining the seat for the saffron party. While addressing the public, he said, “During the Congress regime, development was restricted to Rohtak only but the BJP’s double- engine government has ensured equal development of all segments in the state. We are appealing to the voters to form a double-engine government again in the state with a full majority to ensure smooth implementation of public welfare schemes of the Centre and state government. The party has declared that Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini is the CM face of the party and is contesting from the Ladwa segment. People shouldn’t miss the opportunity to elect the BJP and speed up development works.”
AAP’s Gehal Singh Sandhu, INLD’s Baldev Singh Waraich, JJP’s Dr Sukhwinder Kaur, SAD (Simranjit Singh Mann) candidate Kuldeep Singh, Sanyukt Sangharsh Party’s Gurnam Singh Charuni, and Independent candidates Rajat Sharma and Shyam Lal are also testing their fate in the elections.
