As Haryana goes to vote for the general election on May 25, the Bharatiya Janata Party is toiling to repeat its stellar 2019 performance of sweeping all the 10 Lok Sabha seats, while direct rival Congress is facing a battle to revive itself in the State.
The Congress, after the drubbing in 2019, is contesting this election in a seat-sharing arrangement with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its INDIA bloc partner. The AAP is contesting from just one seat - Kurukshetra - while the Congress fights from the remaining nine. The BJP is contesting all the 10 seats alone.
Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), the former coalition partner of the BJP, and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) are also in the fray, but since both these parties draw support largely from the agrarian class - primarily the Jat community - they appear to be competing among themselves to keep their vote bank intact and stay relevant. Among other parties, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has also fielded candidates.
