Rohtak, Jhajjar voter turnout below state average of 67.90%
Rohtak and Jhajjar district have recorded a slightly lesser voter turnout than the state average of 67.90 per cent in the Assembly elections.
Voters in urban areas of both districts again showed less enthusiasm towards exercising their right to franchise. As per the latest update, average 66.73 per cent electors cast their vote in the four Assembly constituencies of Rohtak district while Jhajjar has registered an average of 65.69 per cent voter turnout in the same number of constituencies.
Among all eight constituencies of both districts, the lowest voter turnout was witnessed in Rohtak where merely 59.96 per cent voters visited polling booths to exercise their franchise here where the Congress and the BJP candidates are in a direct contest. There is no village in this Assembly constituency. The polling percentage was 60.7 per cent in Rohtak in the Assembly polls held in 2019.
Similarly, other three constituencies too have recorded lesser polling than previous elections. As many as 65.86 per cent voters cast their votes in Kalanaur (Reserve) in this election while the figure was 67.3 per cent in 2019. Meham recorded the highest voter turnout in Rohtak district with 74.12 per cent while it was 76.4 per cent in the previous Assembly elections. Garhi Sampla Kiloi registered 67.02 per cent voting this time while it was 73.3 per cent in 2019.
A total 64.27 per cent voter turnout has been recorded in the Jhajjar constituency, 70.02 per cent in Badli, 64.47 per cent in Bahadurgarh and 64.37 per cent in the Beri constituency. It seems to be a bumpy ride for the ruling BJP in both the districts due to anti-incumbency coupled with local and other issues. The Congress clinched seven out of eight seats of both districts in the Assembly polls held in 2019 while an Independent candidate emerged victorious from Meham at that time.
Rohtak is considered a political capital of Haryana and a bastion of former Chief Minister and five-time MLA Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who too is contesting the election from the Garhi-Sampla Kiloi Assembly segment.
BJP’s national secretary Om Prakash Dhankar and former minister Manish Kumar Grover are locked in a tough contest in Badli (Jhajjar) and Rohtak, respectively with the Congress candidates — Kuldeep Vats and Bharat Bhushan Batra — respectively.
Four-time MLA and former Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal as Congress candidate is trying her fortune from Jhajjar (Reserve) constituency. Similarly, former Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker and veteran Congress leader Dr Raghuvir Singh Kadian is in the fray from the Beri constituency in Jhajjar district.
