Union Home Minister Amit Shah
BJP did not get the result as expected in the Haryana Lok Sabha elections. It has reduced from 10 Lok Sabha seats to 5 seats. Ahead of the assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has taken the responsibility of rescuing the BJP from defeat and has started extensive tours. Amit Shah has reached Haryana’s Mahendragarh on Tuesday to participate in the OBC Convention. This is his second visit in three weeks. It reached Panchkula on June 29 and will now be seen trying to cover Mahendragarh to Ahirwal area of ​​South Haryana.
The BJP has started trying to mend the political equation that got messed up in the Lok Sabha elections and is planning to score a hat-trick of power with the help of strong social engineering. The BJP replaced Manohar Lal Khattar with the CM’s chair to Naib Saini and handed over the reins of state president to Mohan Lal Badauli, who hails from the Brahmin community. BJP is thus gearing up to go into the assembly polls with strong cast chemistry, in this series Amit Shah has now attended the BC conference after addressing a workers’ convention in Panchkula 15 days ago. Addressing Mahendragarh and other backward classes, the stake is to keep the class strongly organized.
Amit Shah attended the BC conference as the chief guest at the Central University campus in Mahendragarh, Haryana. Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, BJP State President Mohanlal Badoli, Union Ministers, MPs, MLAs and party officials from across the state have participated. Mahendragarh’s Amit Shah will try to woo Ahirwal at an OBC felicitation event in South Haryana. The focus is on harnessing the large vote bank of OBCs, especially in the assembly seats of Mahendragarh, Rewari, Charkhi Dadri, Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Gurugram, Mewat and other districts.
Ahirwal exercise to strengthen the grip on the belt
The region of South Haryana, also known as the Ahirwal region, has become a stronghold of the BJP in the last ten years. In the recently held Lok Sabha elections too, the Congress wrested five of the 10 seats from the BJP, but the BJP retained its grip on the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh and Gurugram seats in southern Haryana. Apart from this, BJP has also been successful in winning Karnal and Kurukshetra seats. This is the reason why BJP has now focused its special attention on South Haryana for the assembly elections.
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself arrived in Pali village on May 23 to address an election rally and now Union Home Minister Amit Shah is trying to strengthen his grip on the Ahirwal belt of southern Haryana through an OBC convention in Pali. Union Minister of State Rao Indrajit Singh, the strong face of South Haryana and leader of Ahirwal, has mentioned factionalism in the party and even warned the state government during his thank-you tour after his victory in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
24 assembly seats in South Haryana
The route to power in Haryana passes through South Haryana. South Haryana has 24 assembly seats. The BJP is eyeing to tap the large vote bank of OBCs in 24 Assembly seats in Ahirwal’s Mahendragarh, Rewari, Charkhi Dadri, Bhiwani, Jhajjar, Gurugram, Mewat and other districts. There are four assembly seats each in Bhiwani, Mahendragarh, Gurugram and Jhajjar districts, three each in Rewari and Mewat and two seats in Charkhi Dadri. BJP has organized an OBC felicitation ceremony in Mahendragarh for all these assembly seats, which Amit Shah will try to achieve.
Hailing from the OBC Saini caste, CM Naib Singh Saini has been active since assuming power. With the announcement of the Lok Sabha results, Naib Saini has started batting vigorously to win the assembly battle. The Chief Minister gave a big relief to the OBC category in Haryana by increasing the limit of creamy layer from Rs 6 lakh to Rs 8 lakh. The strategy implemented by the BJP government in Haryana for the respect of the backward classes is to bring the BC Conference to every home.
Over 40 percent of OBC voters
Haryana has more than 40 percent OBC voters, who have the power to make or break the political game of any party. BJP’s entire focus is on non-Jat votes. While the Congress and INLD based their politics on the Jat community when they were in power in Haryana, the BJP created a new vote bank among the non-Jats. BJP has now started trying to help the backward community.
BJP first handed over the command of state president to Naib Singh Saini and now he has handed over the seat of power to him. Although it was seen as a balanced initiative when he was made the state president, now the equations of the Lok Sabha have changed. The OBC CM and the state president are from the Brahmin community. BJP is totally working on OBC and Brahmin chemistry and trying to achieve hat-trick of power on its formula.
