BJP’s mammoth ‘Purav Sainik Rally’ in Rewari on September 15 has ignited the political atmosphere in Haryana with all political parties beginning the process of organising public rallies ahead of the lok Sabha elections next year.
The principal opposition party in Haryana, Indian National lok Dal (INlD) has announced its ‘Shahidi Diwas Sammelan’ at Narnaul in Mahendergarh district on September 23 and State Congress also has planned its big rally at Rania in Sirsa district on September 29 besides organising several district Congress committees’ meetings in the State.
Haryana Janhit Congress, an ally of BJP in Haryana, too has begun its preparations for its ‘Rath Yatra’ which will start from October 6 for different parts of Haryana.
To garner support for his party, Bishnoi had also launched a multi-pronged HJC-BJP campaign through 11 documentaries and 52 advertisements, besides activating his party portals on social media. The “rath yatra”, for which a customised bus had already been readied, equipped with various facilities and poll material, would start from Adampur on October 6 and would conclude on December 2 in Hisar, where a state-level rally would be organised.
Haryana BJP which has negligible vote bank in the rural areas, has now started concentrating to get support of the Ahir caste and also focusing in the non Jat belt. It succeeded to some extent by fetching huge crowd in the recent Rewari ‘Purav Sainik Rally’ on September 15, attended by party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi.
INlD, which has committed Jat vote bank in different parts of the rural Haryana, too requires the support of non Jats and hence has started focusing on ‘Ahir’ or non Jat vote bank.
Ashok Arora, State president told The Pioneer the ‘Sammelan’ in Narnaul would not only be prove as a historical rally but would also give new direction to the State politics.
“We are mainly focusing on the 21 Assembly constituencies in the districts including Jhajjar, Rewari, Mahendergarh, Gurgaon and Bhiwani close to Narnaul”, said Arora.
He added senior MlAs and party leaders have been deputed to register maximum participation of public in our rallies so that it may be converted to votes.
Similarly, Congress has also started concentrating on its vote bank. It held a public rally at Radaur on September 15 and on the same day State Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had also addressed a huge gathering at Yamunanagar.
“We are organizing a huge public rally at Rania in Sirsa district on September 29, besides organizing several other public meetings in the state”, said Phool Chand Mullana, state Congress president.