Congress keeps faith in sitting MLAs in Kurukshetra

Reposing its faith in the sitting MLAs, the Congress has fielded Shalley Chaudhary from the Naraingarh Assembly segment of Ambala and Mewa Singh from the Ladwa Assembly segment of Kurukshetra district.

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First poll in 2009

The Ladwa assembly segment was carved out of the Thanesar Assembly constituency and witnessed its first election in 2009. The people of Ladwa have elected candidates of different parties in each election.

Shalley Chaudhary will be contesting for the second time. Mewa Singh is contesting against Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and Indian National Lok Dal’s former MLA Sher Singh Barshami.

The Naraingarh constituency has been a citadel of the Congress as the grand old party has won Naraingarh segment six times since 1967, while the BJP has won once. In the 2019 Assembly elections, Shalley Chaudhary, wife of former MLA and working president Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee Ramkishan Gujjar, had won her first ever election by defeating BJP’s Surinder Singh Rana by a comfortable margin of 20,600 votes.

Speaking to The Tribune, Congress MLA Shalley Chaudhary said, “I am grateful to the party high command for giving me another opportunity. We have been getting tremendous support from the people of Naraingarh. They supported me last time when the BJP was talking about the slogan ‘75 paar in Haryana’, and I am confident that the people of Naraingarh will again support me in the election. All sections of society are unhappy with the policies of the BJP and after the forming the government, the Congress will address the pending issues of farmers, unemployed youth, employees and other people.”

“Earlier, my husband has served the people of this constituency and ensured development of this area, and we will continue to work for Naraingarh. The district status for Naraingarh has been a long-pending demand and we will try to get it fulfilled. Besides this I will try to get a permanent solution for sugarcane farmers who face inconvenience due to Naraingarh Sugar mills”, she added.

The Ladwa assembly segment was carved out of the Thanesar Assembly constituency and it witnessed its first election in 2009. The people of Ladwa have elected candidates of different parties in each election. in 2009 the seat was won by INLD, then by BJP in 2014 and Congress in 2019.

Ladwa was the only seat won by Congress in 2019 election in Kurukshetra district.

Ladwa Congress MLA Mewa Singh said “The voters of Haryana have decided to oust the BJP government and form the Congress government in Haryana. I remained among people over the past five years and have seen them struggling due to wrong policies and decisions of the BJP government. People of Ladwa are waiting to ask questions from Chief Minister Nayab Saini and they will ask him to present his report card. He failed to bring any project, raise issues of Ladwa and resolve the problems during his tenure as MP and now even as the Chief Minister. I am confident that the people of Ladwa will continue to support me and I will get the issues of Ladwa resolved.”