Chandigarh

Hooda files nomination, says Congress ready for third term

PNS

 Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday filed his nomination for next assembly elections in the state and said Congress will form the next Government.

Hooda filed his nomination papers for the Garhi-Sampla Kiloi Assembly seat in Rohtak district.

He has been elected legislator from this seat thrice earlier.

Talking to the media after filing his nomination papers, Hooda said that the Congress was confident of winning the assembly elections and forming the Government for a third time in the State. “We will form the next government in the state. The Congress will win comfortably,” Hooda said. He has been chief minister in Haryana since March 2005. His government assumed office for a second term after the October 2009 Assembly polls.

Elections to 90 Assembly seats in Haryana are to be held Oct 15. The results will be known Oct 19.