Former Haryana Chief Minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda on April 7 exhorted party cadre to keep vigil on Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) on polling day, and ensure 90% turnout to guarantee his party’s win in the Rohtak Lok Sabha constituency.
Though the Congress is yet to announce its candidates for Haryana, Mr. Hooda’s son and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda is most likely to contest from Rohtak, the Hooda family’s bastion.
Referring to Mr. Deepender Hooda’s loss by a whisker to the BJP’s Arvind Sharma in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Mr. Hooda, addressing a ‘Jan Aakrosh’ rally in the Rohtak parliamentary constituency’s Beri Assembly segment, said the electorate in the region had voted overwhelmingly for his son, but the turnout should be 90% this time to ensure a lead of at least one lakh votes from the Assembly seat.
