Ambala Cantonment: Senior BJP leader Anil Vij has won from the Ambala Cantonment seat by a margin of 7277 votes. In the 2024 polls, he defeated independent candidate Chitra Sarwara.
Vij polled 59858 votes while Sarwara polled 52581 votes. Congress nominee Parvinder Pal Pari managed to get only 14469 votes and stood third. The key battle was between Vij and Sarwara and the former managed to retain the seat.
Vij has served as the Home and Health Minister of the state. It remains to be seen whether Vij will be part of the Cabinet when the saffron party forms the government for the third successive time in Haryana. Ambala Cantonment recorded a voter turnout of 64.45 per cent after the voting was held on October 5.
In the 2019 Haryana Assembly polls, Vij had emerged victorious by garnering 64, 571 votes. He defeated independent candidate Chitra Sarwara, who polled 44, 406 votes while Venu Singh, who was given a ticket by the Congress, managed to poll on 8, 534 votes or just 7.1 per cent votes.
According to the Election Commission of India (ECI) data, the BJP has won 42 seats and is inching closer to the halfway mark. The Congress has so far won 34 seats and the results in Haryana are a huge setback to Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi, who campaigned in the northern state.
