As campaigning for Hisar Lok Sabha seat by-election ended on Monday, the big question on everyone’s lips is about the impact of Team Anna, which appealed for a vote against the Congress.
As campaigning for Hisar Lok Sabha seat by-election ended on Monday, the big question on everyone’s lips is about the impact of Team Anna, which appealed for a vote against the Congress.
People say Anna’s team has only helped HJC’s Kuldeep Bishnoi and INLD’s Ajay Chautala, the main rival candidates against Congress’s Jai Parkash.
Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and the enthusiastic middle class civil society activists of Hisar are sure to deny that it was their intention to defeat the Congress, and would claim that are not really bothered who will win. However, people will see the Team Anna only as anti-Congress and not accept the explanation that their opposition to the Congress is on the Lokpal issue alone and nothing else.
Campaign ended for the by-election at 4 pm on Tuesday with a rally of Ajay Chautala, son of late Devi Lal, in the town’s only big ground, where the Congress had held its big show on Monday. The other big contender, Haryana Janhit Congress’s Kuldeep Bishnoi, is son of late Bhajan Lal.
Interestingly, it appears that caste affinities would finally decide the vote on October 13.
According to Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) secretary Hari Om Kaushik, the INLD is playing the Jat card while the HJC is banking on the non-Jat card. He claims that the Congress carries everyone along, and they have fielded a Jat farmer as its candidate.
Sudesh Agarwal, who is contesting as a Samast Bharatiya Party candidate, said, “Anna’s team has taken away the votes from the Congress, but it will not be contributing in a big way to either Bishnoi or Chautala. They will not be depending on these votes for their victory.”
He is loath to admit that the Team Anna is helping them in some way to increase their victory margin because Agarwal thinks that he is to be reckoned as a potential winner.
The response that Kejriwal evoked at the town’s Red Square among the educated and middle class people was spontaneous and enthusiastic and even large for an election which has 1.3 million voters.
Team Anna members have a realistic take on their effort. “Our efforts may not pay off in Hisar. That does not mean we will not keep at it in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere,” they said.
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