Haryana victory was decided by just '0.85%' votes! This is how BJP defeated Congress in margin game

Haryana: From the initial trends of Haryana assembly elections to the final results, the hopes of both the  BJP and Congress remained alive. At one point in the initial trends, Congress crossed the majority mark. Celebrations also started at the Congress office but this celebration proved to be a short-lived happiness.

How Congress dream shattered

While the BJP party has got the clear mandate with absolute majority in Haryana elections. In the close contest of Haryana, the picture of power was decided by a margin gap of just 0.85% votes. Know what was the difference in the votes received by both the parties?

In initial trends Congress crossed the majority mark

In the meanwhile the  trends suddenly changed and BJP recovered and the picture changed, Congress's hopes remained alive till the end in the close contest but the party never seemed to be in a position to form the government. The celebration of victory shifted from the Congress office to the BJP camp. In the margin game of Haryana, Congress lagged behind by a small margin.

Margin game of Haryana elections

The picture of power was decided by a small margin and the party's 10-year-long exile from the power of the state got an extension of another five years.How tight the fight was in the Haryana elections can be gauged from the fact that there were only five seats where the margin of victory and defeat was more than 50 thousand.

How the numbers changed the victory senario

The margin of victory and defeat was more than 50 thousand in Badshahpur, Ferozepur Jhirka, Garhi Sampla-Kiloi, Gurgaon and Panipat Rural Assembly seats. The record of the biggest victory was in the name of Congress's Maman Khan from Ferozepur Jhirka. Maman Khan won the election by a margin of 98 thousand 441 votes. There were 19 seats in the state where the margin of victory and defeat was less than five thousand votes, in which three seats - Dabwali, Loharu and Uchana Kalan - were decided by a margin of less than one thousand. Out of these 19 seats with close contest, Congress won on seven seats, BJP on 10 seats and Indian National Lok Dal candidates of Chautala family won on two seats.

Congress won after lagging behind on these seats

Congress was trailing on Panchkula seat till afternoon but in the end the results came in favour of the party. Congress candidate Chandramohan Bishnoi won by 1997 votes. In Fatehabad itself, the scene changed as the day progressed and Balwan Singh Daulatpuria, who was continuously trailing, later made a comeback and won by a margin of 2252 votes. On Adampur seat also, BJP's Bhavya Bishnoi maintained the lead for a long time but in the end Congress candidate Chander Prakash won.

Picture of power was decided by a margin of 0.85 percent

Though BJP, which was going to form the government with full majority by winning 48 seats, and the opposition Congress which was stuck at 37 seats. BJP got 39.94 percent votes and Congress's vote share was 39.09 percent. Talking about votes, BJP got a total of 55 lakh 48 thousand 800 votes and Congress got 54 lakh 30 thousand 602. The mirror of figures is telling that the difference of one lakh 18 thousand 198 votes between the party going to capture power and the party which remained in the opposition proved to be decisive

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Only 0.85 percent vote gap decided the chair

However AAP party In Haryana elections, Aam Aadmi Party candidates could not even save their deposits on most of the seats but if we look at the overall results, it seems that if Congress had formed an alliance with it and votes had been transferred, the picture could have been different. Aam Aadmi Party has got much more votes ( 2 lakh 48 thousand 455 votes) than the difference in votes between Congress and BJP.

How Congress was defeated by BJP?

Dalits: Taking a lesson from the results of the Lok Sabha elections, BJP also organized caste conventions to bring Dalit voters to its side. BJP leaders attacked Congress by making the casteist remark against Kumari Selja an issue and it benefited them with a gain of three seats.

Micro planning: BJP identified close contest seats and did micro level planning for them. As a part of the strategy, more emphasis was given on door-to-door campaigns than mass rallies.

OBC: CM Saini's government launched several schemes for OBCs as soon as it came to power. In its Sankalp Patra too, the party made several promises to OBCs, from scholarships to loans without guarantee, and kept them attached to itself against the Jats.

Plethora of candidates:  BJP saw a path to victory being prepared with a crowd of candidates, there is also a discussion that the party indirectly fielded many candidates. Due to such candidates, anti-BJP votes got divided and Congress was kept away from victory.