The BJP announced its first list of candidates for Haryana Assembly elections on Monday. Of the four Assembly seats in Gurugram district, the party has given tickets to fresh faces for Pataudi (SC), Sohna and Badshahpur Assembly seat.
However, a candidate is yet to be decided for the Gurugram city constituency (the fourth assembly seat) in the district.
According to the list, Satya Prakash Jaravata will be contesting from Pataudi , a reserved seat replacing Bimla Chaudhary. Manish Yadav, who is a State President of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Haryana has been fielded from Badshahpur replacing Rao Narbir Singh, who is also a sitting PWD minister in Manohar Lal Khattar Government while Sanjay Singh will contest from Sohna Assembly seat. Singh will replace Tejpal Tanwar.
"It is a well considered decision of the party to select new candidates for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections. The party has announced many fresh faces for Assembly polls in the state. BJP is headed for a big win the state and will win 'Abki bar 75 par' seats in the upcoming Assembly elections," said Raman Malik, the spokesperson of Haryana BJP. Malik said that the candidate of the Gurugram Vidhan Sabha seat will be announced soon.
Apart from the names of BJP candidates being announced, three nominations were filed by independent candidates on Monday for the Badshahpur Vidhan Sabha seat.
"The election campaign has started and the morale of the party leaders and workers is quite high. This election would be fought on issues of development and infrastructure growth in Gurugram," Malik added.
Haryana is going to polls on October 21. The last day for filing nomination is October 4. The final results will be declared on October 24 after counting of votes.
"All major developmental works have been completed and top it all there has been a transparent recruitment system that ensured quailed youngsters of Haryana were selected on merit. Corruption in state level jobs that was rampant during earlier Congress and INLD led governments, was totally eradicated. Selection was done purely on merit and no other influence was allowed by the Khattar government", Malik added.
Under the BJP?rule several infrastructure projects that were stuck, were completed. Residents of Gurugram now ride state run city bus services. Kundli-Manesar-Palwal super expressway was completed during the BJP rule," he said.