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With Haryana staring at a hung assembly, Congress leader Deepender Hooda Thursday reminded his Twitter followers of his prediction that the Opposition will break the “arrogance” of Manohar Lal Khattar’s government.
On October 21, Hooda, who is the son of former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said: “Save this tweet, Haryana is going to break the arrogance of Khattar government.”
Hooda today retweeted the same post asking people to save it once again. “Save this tweet from last week once again,” he said.
The BJP is presently struggling to repeat its 2014 performance where it had won 47 seats. According to latest election trends, the BJP is leading in 37 seats, and seven of its Cabinet ministers are trailing. The Congress has doubled its previous tally as it is leading in 35 seats. However, Dushyant Chautala’s JJP, with leads in 10 constituencies, is likely to emerge as a kingmaker in case neither the BJP nor Congress manages an absolute majority.
Hooda called on the JJP chief and other like minded independents to form the government along with Congress.
‘Today, it’s clear that people’s mandate is to throw off Khattar’s govt. I want to ask Dushyant Chautala (JJP), independent candidates and other parties to come together and form coalition govt in Haryana so that people’s mandate can be respected,” he told reporters.
He also accused the BJP of applying pressure on independents to side with them.
“BJP is trying to pressurize independent candidates as most of them want to join us. It can’t be accepted in democracy. Independent candidates should be able to freely choose the party whom they wish to support. I want to appeal to EC about it through media,” he added.
