BJP announces 67 names for Haryana Assembly polls, CM Saini moved from Karnal to Ladwa

BJP on Wednesday released the first list of 67 candidates for the Haryana assembly polls.

Dynasts of influential political families and JJP turncoats have been rewarded with poll tickets.

The party has changed the assembly seat of Haryana chief minister Nayab Saini to Ladwa. In Karnal, currently represented in the assembly by Saini, BJP has fielded Jagmohan Anand.


Three JJP MLAs who switched to BJP, including former minister Anoop Dhanak and Devender Singh Babli, have been fielded by the party. Dhanak is BJP candidate from Uklana, a reserved seat, and Babli from Tohana. Another MLA elected on JJP ticket, Ram Kumar Gautam, is BJP candidate from Safidon.

Two former MPs - Sunita Duggal and Arvind Sharma - have been fielded from reserved seats Ratia and Gohana, respectively. Sharma recently contested from Rohtak Lok Sabha seat unsuccessfully.

BJP has also fielded grandchildren of three former CMs. ET had reported on August 30 that the party is likely to field them.

They are - Shruti Choudhry, granddaughter of former chief minister Bansi Lal, from Tosham; Bhavya Bishnoi, grandson of former CM Bhajan Lal, from Adampur; and Arti Singh Rao, granddaughter of former CM Rao Birendra Singh, from Ateli. Arti is daughter of Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh.

The party has renominated its senior leaders Anil Vij from Ambala, OP Dhankar from Badli and Captain Abhimanyu from Narnaund. Dhankar and Abhimanyu had lost in the last assembly polls.

BJP has dropped former Olympian and Pehowa MLA Sandeep Singh. A women athletics coach in Haryana had levelled sexual harassment allegations against him.

The assembly polls for the 90-member Haryana assembly is scheduled to be held on October 5.