Haryana Assembly Election 2024: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Friday announced the polls schedule for the Haryana Assembly election and said the polls will be held in single phase on October 1 and the counting of votes will take place on October 4. During the press conference, he said that over 20629 polling booths to be set up and 4.52 lakh will be first-time voters in the state.
"There are a total of 90 assembly constituencies in Haryana, of which 73 are general, SC-17 and ST-0. There will be a total of 2.01 crore voters in Haryana, of which 1.06 crore are males, 0.95 crore are females, 4.52 lakhs are first-time voters and 40.95 lakhs are young voters. The electoral roll of Haryana will be published on 27th August 2024,” Rajiv Kumar said.
As per the schedule released by the EC, a gazette notification will be issued on September 9 and the nominations will be submitted by September 12 with the next day allocated as the final date for scrutiny of nominations.
This time, the state of Haryana is likely to see a four-way contest between the BJP, the Congress, the JJP and the AAP as the term of the current government will end on November 3.
In 2019 assembly elections, the BJP had secured 40 seats to form a coalition government with the JJP. Notably, the Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janta Party holds 10 seats in the 90-member assembly.
As the assembly poll dates have been announced, the ruling BJP is likely to stress on the "clean image" of Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and his predecessor Manohar Lal Khattar as well as the "transparent administration" provided by the state government. The BJP has also added advantage of being in power at the Centre, which allows it to pitch to voters its “double-engine capability”.
