Task cut out for Hooda: End Congress' decade-long hiatus from power in Haryana
Haryana to be number one once again," Congress veteran Bhupinder Singh Hooda declared from the dais while addressing a poll rally in his home constituency Garhi Sampla-Kiloi here a few days ago. The former Haryana chief minister, who turned 77 on Sunday, has remained a four-time MP from Rohtak and defeated former deputy prime minister Devi Lal from the parliamentary seat in the 1990s.
Although the Congress has made it clear that its MLAs and the high command will pick the chief minister if the party wins the elections, Jat stalwart Hooda is virtually the face of the Congress for the upcoming Assembly polls.
The Congress is contesting 89 seats — except Bhiwani which it has left for the CPI(M) — and the majority of these have gone to Hooda loyalists or those considered close to him. Besides, the party has re-fielded all 28 sitting MLAs, most of whom owe allegiance to Hooda.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, barring the Sirsa seat contested and won by his bete noire Kumari Selja, Hooda's choice prevailed in the remaining eight of the nine constituencies from where the Congress contested.
It won five seats, including Sirsa, while its INDIA bloc ally AAP unsuccessfully fought the Kurukshetra seat.
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