The Haryana Assembly elections are underway and a hotly contested seat has seen all forms of campaigning. On Monday, the women supporters of Congress leader and candidate from Rohtak district's Garhi Sampla-Kiloi seat, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, sang and danced in Sanghi village.

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A fight for re-election

Bhupinder Singh Hooda is the de-facto Chief Ministerial face for the Congress, having led the State before BJP's Manohar Lal Khattar took over in 2014. Hooda is also the Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Legislative Assembly. He is contesting for his re-election from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi. The seat has been his priced bastion.

Hooda had won this seat in 2014 with 80,693 votes. The Jat-dominated seat with over two lakh voters has 13 candidates in the fray. BJP has fielded Satish Nandal, a former Indian National Lok Dal leader, to challenge Hooda. Nandal was twice defeated by Hooda in the last two Assembly polls. Krishan Kaushik is the INLD candidate for Garhi Sampla-Kiloi constituency.

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Haryana assembly election 

Polling for 90 seats in Haryana began at 7 AM on Monday and will continue till 6 PM in the evening. The electoral fate of 1,169 candidates will be sealed in EVMs by the voters who will exercise their democratic franchise in the assembly elections.
In Haryana, 19,578 polling stations have been set up for citizens to cast their votes.

The assembly polls will witness a multi-cornered contest among BJP, Congress, Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the recently formed Jannayak Janata Party (JJP). Votes will be counted on October 24. In the 2014 elections, BJP had won 47 seats and formed the government on its own strength while the Congress managed just 15 seats. The INLD finished second with 19 seats.

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(With ANI inputs)