The 2024 Haryana Legislative Assembly election is scheduled to be held on or before October 2024 to elect all 90 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

Background

The tenure of

Haryana Legislative Assembly The Haryana Legislative Assembly or the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral state legislature of Haryana state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 90 Members of L ...

is scheduled to be end on 3 November 2024. The previous Assembly elections were held in October 2019. After the election, a coalition of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling p ...

and

Jannayak Janta Party The Jannayak Janta Party, abbreviated as, JJP is an Indian state-level political party in Haryana, India. JJP is a recognized state political party. JJP was founded on 9 December 2018 by Dushyant Chautala with the ideology of Devi Lal, who s ...

formed the state government, with

Manohar Lal Khattar Manohar Lal Khattar (born 05 May 1954) is an Indian politician serving as the 10th and current chief minister of Haryana. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former RSS pracharak. He represents Karnal constituency in Harya ...

becoming the

Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ...

Schedule

Parties and Alliances

Campaigns

Indian National Congress

The

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

started its election campaign with a rally a year before when the election was expected to occur in November 2023. Speaking at the rally in

Radaur Radaur is a municipal town in Yamunanagar district in the Indian state of Haryana. Demographics Radaur was ruled by Sandhu Jats as a princely state in late 18th century. As of 2011 Indian Census, Radaur had a total population of 13,690, of wh ...

, former state chief minister

Bhupinder Singh Hooda Bhupinder Singh Hooda (born 15 September 1947) is an Indian National Congress politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. When he b ...

promised subsidised cooking gas cylinders, restoration of the Old Pension Scheme, and a hike in the Old Age Pension to ₹6,000. He also promised legal guarantee of MSP and to increase the sugarcane support price to ₹450 per quintal. Congress leader Aftab Ahmed stated that the Congress campaign, known as ''Congress Lao, Desh Bachao'' (Elect Congress, Save the Country) would aim at highlighting important civic issues such as unemployment, crime, corruption, and the plight of farmers among others.

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