Nine women won in the Haryana Assembly election, results of which were declared on Thursday.This included five from Congress, three from Bharatiya Janta Party and one from Jannanyak Janta Party,In 2014 assembly polls, 13 women candidates became MLAs in Haryana.
This time, 105 women candidates out of total 1169 were in the fray. JJP candidate Naina Chautala defeated Congress nominee Ranbir Singh Mahendra from the Bardha seat with a margin of more than 13,000 votes. Earlier, she was a legislator from Dabwali seat.
BJP’s Seema Trikha won from Badkhal seat by defeating Congress candidate Vijay Partap Singh by a margin of over 2,500 votes. Another BJP's candidate Nirmal Rani defeated Congress heavyweight and former Haryana assembly speaker Kuldeep Sharma from Ganaur seat by more than 10,000 votes. Congress’ senior leader Kiran Choudhry retained Tosham seat by a margin of 18059 votes trouncing Shashi Ranjan of BJP. Another Congress candidate and former Minister Geeta Bhukkal retained Jhajjar reserve seat by trouncing BJP's Rakesh Kumar by 14,999 votes. While Congress candidate Shakuntla Khatak defeated BJP’s Ram Avtar from Kalanaur reserve seat by over 10,000 votes, BJP’s Kamlesh Dhanda defeated Congress candidate Jay Parkash from Kalayat seat by over 8,000 votes.