BJP is pipe dreaming in haryana. I guess I have been right on this one. They will get zero again unless the impossible happens BJP + HJC + INLD. Every other combination will falter in front of the congress. I guess this state is firmly in congress hands. BJP has a neta from this state who can shout, speak shayari in parliament, play ugly games in the party, but not get one damn freaking vote for the party in her home state.
http://www.dailypostindia.com/news/5580 ... -poll.html
Too difficult for BJP to get reckoned in poll
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), deprived of a fine-tuned organisational network, will be hard pressed to win a few Lok Sabha seats in Haryana even if the party chooses to ally with the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC), which has hardly any support base beyond Hisar. The party had contested five Lok Sabha seats in alliance with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in 2005, but drew a blank. Except Ambala reserved seat, the BJP had failed to put up an impressive show elsewhere. In Ambala, BJP’s Rattan Lal Kataria polled 3,07,688 votes to lose to Kumari Selja, who had got 3,22,258 votes. Similarly in Karnal, former Union Minister ID Swami came a poor third by polling 1,85,437 votes as compared to the Congress’ Arvind Kumar Sharma of 3,04,698 votes, while his nearest contestant Maratha Virender Verma of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) got 2,28,352 votes.
“Statistically, you may not find us in a strong position, but we will do fairly well in the coming polls in Haryana,” (How on earth do you expect us to believe that) said Ram Bilas Sharma, BJP’s Haryana unit president. In Sonepat, Kishan Singh Sangwan polled 1,77,511 votes as compared to Jitender Singh, the Congress nominee, who polled 3,38,795 votes. In Gurgaon, Sudha Yadav of the BJP came a poor third by polling 1,25,837 votes as compared to 2,78,516 votes of Rao Inderjit Singh of the Congress, who defeated Zakir Hussain of the BSP. Hussain had got 1,93,652 votes. The party fared slightly better in Faridabad, where Ramchander Bainda got 1,89,663 votes as against 2,57,864 votes of Avtar Singh Bhadana of the Congress.
BJP’s performance in the poll to seven municipal corporations held on June 2 was abysmal. The party won only 25 wards out of a total of 144 wards, clocking 15.01 per cent votes.
The BJP had the support of HJC, which did not prove of much help. The BJP had won four seats in Ambala, three in Panchkula, two in Rohtak, three in Karnal, six in Panipat, and seven in Yamunanagar, and drew blank in Hisar, the home-turf of MP and HJC president Kuldeep Bishnoi.
“Our chances were sabotaged by some vested interests. We were expecting a much better performance,” said Sharma, also a former minister.
(Blah Blah Blah, excuses and nothing else)
In the assembly poll held in October 2009, the BJP was in the fray on its own, and ended up registering 9.05 per cent votes, while the INLD got 25.81 per cent votes, HJC 7.41 per cent and the Congress 35.11 per cent. BJP’s Anil Vij won from Ambala Cantonment, Ghansyam Saraf from Bhiwani, Krishanpal Gurjar from Tigaon, and Kavita Jain from Sonepat. In many constituencies, the BJP fared worse than the BSP. For example, in Kalka assembly seat, the BJP’s Virender Singh polled 1,958 votes, while the BSP’s Vijay Bansal had got 4,975 votes. Similarly, in Naraingarh seat, BJP got only 8,082 votes as compared to the BSP’s 15,404 votes. In Mullana reserved seat, the BJP got 4,954 votes as against 28,113 votes of the BSP.
How strong is the BJP’s state leadership? Ram Bilas Sharma is certainly a veteran among the party’s existing lot in the state, but is tool slow to galvanise the cadres. Having won the assembly poll in 1982, 1987, 1991 and 1996, Sharma lost the assembly poll in 2000 from Mahendragarh and Ballabhgarh as well. In 2004, he fought the Lok Sabha poll from Bhiwani and got 24,467 votes only. He fought the assembly poll from Mahendragarh in 2005 and 2009, but lost both the times. “Through him, the BJP is trying to reach out to the Brahmins of the state. How much benefits the party reaps by doing so remains to be seen. We are trying to organise some big rallies in months to come,” said a BJP functionary. (Quite pathetic organization)
This state is over for NDA. It will be a UPA sweep unless Modi can get a BJP + HJC + INLD, even that I am not sure will yield great results. They may get 4 seats of the 10. As far as BJP as a party is concerned, in Haryana they are nothing more than noise.
It is a canard believed by some. Surprisingly people in BRF believe such stories. I know Periyar and DK will be thrown in next. I was born and brought in TN, and it is a darn religious (and cattiest) place. It is a land of temples - big ones and street corner ones. People are as pious as any other state in the country. Sure there are atheists.
. In jest only.
