"We welcome this step...": Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury on Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections

New Delhi [India], August 16 (ANI): Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury on Friday welcomed the announcement of assembly elections in Haryana and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and said that Congress will sweep the elections and form a government.
"We welcome this step (of conducting assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir)...INDIA bloc will form the government on the 4th of October...We welcome the Haryana elections also and we will swipe the elections and form government there also," Chowdhury told ANI.
The Assembly elections for Haryana will be held in a single phase on October 1 and the polling in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will be held in three phases from September 18 to October 1. The counting of votes will take place on October 4.
As per the announcement, the voters in Jammu and Kashmir will cast their votes on September 18, and September 25, and the third phase will take place on October 1, along with Haryana.
Jammu and Kashmir will witness elections after a gap of ten years as the last assembly election was held in 2014. The PDP-BJP coalition government fell in June 2018 when the latter withdrew support to the then-Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti.
The term of the current government in Haryana will end on November 3, 2024, and elections will take place in 90 legislative assembly constituencies in the state.
After the 2019 elections, the BJP, with 40 seats in the 90-member assembly, formed a coalition government with the JJP. The JJP had won 10 seats, while the Congress had won 31 seats. The BJP-JJP alliance broke earlier this year.
In 2024, Haryana is likely to see a four-way contest between the BJP, the Congress, the JJP, and the AAP. (ANI)