Over the past three weeks, Haryana’s Congress leadership has focused on the Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janta Party’s (JJP’s) lower vote count compared to NOTA (none of the above) in the 2024 Lok Sabha (LS) polls, rather than their own victory in five of the state’s 10 LS seats. While the Congress’ assertion is misleading when examining the data, it is also clever.
Five years ago, the JJP, then barely a year old in politics, grievously hurt the Congress.
It won 10 Assembly seats and secured a 14.84 per cent vote share in the 2019 Assembly polls in
