Haryana has got 25 young members for the state legislative Assembly this time and most of the young MlAs are from Bharatiya Janata Party, the party which emerged as the single largest party in Haryana.
Among 90, newly elected MlAs — five MlAs are under the age group of 35 in which four MlAs belong to BJP and one from INlD. The youngest MlA in this Assembly BJP’s Sukhvinder Singh, 29, has been elected from Badhra constituency of Bhiwani area. He defeated Ranbir Singh Mahendra former president of BCCI and son of former Chief Minister of Haryana Bansi lal. Similarly, BJP has nine MlAs under the age group of 45 among total 19 MlAs in this age group, whereas INlD has six, followed by one each from SAD, Congress, HJC and independent in this assembly. BJP again took lead in the age category of 50 years of candidates. BJP has ten MlAs, INlD five, Congress three and HJC and Independents one each in this age group. Notably, the saffron party had given tickets to 23 candidates between 29 to 50 years age group, who had focused on 30 percent newly added young voters (18 to 29 age group) of Haryana during campaigning in the assembly polls.