The ruling BJP has finalised the names of party candidates in the remaining Lok Sabha seats in Haryana on Sunday.
Sitting MP Arvind Sharma, Cabinet Minister Ranjeet Singh, sitting BJP MLA Mohan Lal Badauli and former Congress stalwart Naveen Jindal have been declared candidates on remaining Rohtak, Hisar, Sonipat and Kurukshetra parliamentary seats.
Just ahead of the declaration of the tickets, Naveen Jindal, a former Congress heavyweight and two-time MP quit the grand old party joined the BJP. Naveen Jindal will fight Sushil Gupta , the joint candidate of Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAM).
The Congress, the main opposition party has remained undecided on all nine Lok Sabha seats which is being seen as the poll strategy of the party. Former Congress MP Naveen Jindal, who has refrained himself from active politics for a long time and all of sudden quit the Congress just before the finalisation of his name as the Lok Sabha candidate from Kurukshetra.
Before bidding a farewell to the Congress, he wrote on ‘X’ that “I represented the Congress Party in Parliament as Kurukshetra MP for 10 years. I thank the Congress leadership and the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Today, I am resigning from the primary membership of the Congress Party’.”
On the other hand, an independent MLA Ranjit Singh who has been fielded from Hisar seat, was given a berth in the state cabinet for the second consecutive time, also joined BJP. It is pertinent to mention that another BJP stalwart Captain Abhimanyu who was in the fray for the ticket from Hisar, has been denied the ticket.