2024 Karnal Lok Sabha Elections: BJP veteran faces Congress youth leader
Karnal | Panipat: A former CM and the currentCM are in the fray in Karnal — one contesting for the Lok Sabha elections and the other for the state assembly bypoll. Manohar Lal Khattar, who was replaced as Haryana CM, is contesting the Lok Sabha election after resigning from Karnal assembly seat. His successor Nayab Saini is contesting the by-poll from the same assembly seat. But more than the CM and the former CM, it is the two other candidates — Congress' Divyanshu Budhiraja and NCP-INLD joint candidate Virender Maratha — who have created a lot of buzz in this constituency, where the BJP registered the second highest margin in the previous Lok Sabha polls.
Karnal is seen as one of the better seats for the BJP which its precursor, Jan Sangh, had won for the first time in 1962. While Karnal is hub for rice millers, dairy players and the footwear industry, Panipat in a handloom industry centre.
As one travels from the urban centres of Panipat and Karnal, factors like Modi's popularity and free ration get drowned by people's anger against the mishandling of farmers and wrestlers' protests.
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