Rohtak (Haryana) [India], October 5 : Following the multiple exit polls projecting a clean sweep for the Congress in the state, party leader and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Saturday said that the main factor was the party's achievements from 2005-2014 and the failure of the BJP government from 2014-2024.
"I have been saying this since we started campaigning that there is a wave in favour of Congress. Congress will form a government with a thumping majority...The main factor was our achievements from 2005-2014 and the failure of the BJP government from 2014-2024- corruption and non-performance. We will work on unemployment, education and security," Hooda told ANI.
Hooda said that the decision of who will become the Chief Minister if Congress wins the assembly elections will ultimately rest with the high command.
"It (CM post) is everyone's right...This is democracy. Whatever decision the High Command takes, we will accept this...She (Kumari Selja) is our senior leader," the Congress leader said.
Congress leader Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav, Chairman of the AICC OBC unit said that the party should get 60 seats adding that it won't be a surprise if the number crosses 65 as well.
"Exit polls have started coming. I think we should get around 60 seats. Some 10-12 (election) tickets were not given appropriately, else it was going to be a tsunami. It won't be a surprise if the number of seats crosses 65 as well. Many start campaigners came here, if Rahul Gandhi had come it would have been good," he said.
Congress candidate from the Rewari Assembly seat, Chiranjeev Rao expressed confidence that the Congress would be forming the government with a thumping majority.
"We have been saying that Congress will form a government with a thumping majority...Congress will get more than 70 seats and form a government in Haryana. BJP will get 15 seats," he said.
As voting for the 2024 Assembly elections in Haryana concluded on Saturday, exit polls are predicting a clean sweep for the Congress in the state, with some polls predicting the party will win more than 50 of the 90 seats in the assembly.
According to the Republic TV-Matrize poll, the Congress Party may get 55-62 seats out of 90, while the BJP is poised to win18-24 seats.
People Pulse poll survey said that the Congress may get 44-54 seats, BJP 15-29 and others may win up to 4-9 seats.
Dainik Bhaskar in its poll survey suggested that the Congress will get 44-54 seats, BJP 15-29 and others may get 4-9.
As per the Dhruv Research polls survey, the Congress may get 50-64 seats, and BJP may win up to 22-32 seats in the state.
Meanwhile, Haryana recorded 61 per cent of voter turnout till 5 pm on Saturday across all the 90 assembly seats in the single-phase assembly polls in the state.
Voting concluded in the Haryana assembly elections with EVM and VVPAT at a polling booth, being sealed and secured for counting day.
A total of 1,031 candidates contested in 90 assembly constituencies, and 20,632 polling booths were set up for voting. The votes will be counted on October 8 for both Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, the BJP won 40 of the 90 seats, forming a coalition government with the JJP, which won 10 seats. The Congress secured 31 seats. However, JJP later broke out of the coalition.