Chandigarh, April 27 -- Seven of the eight candidates announced by the Congress for Haryana are loyalists and supporters of former Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda, clearly suggesting the dominant position he has in state politics.
Hooda's son and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda has again been fielded from Rohtak while former Union Minister and Congress General Secretary Kumari Selja will be the candidate from the Sirsa reserved seat. Selja is the only Hooda detractor to have found a nomination for the Lok Sabha polls. Selja has been pitted against former Haryana Congress president and BJP candidate Ashok Tanwar in Sirsa. Deepender will be contesting against sitting BJP MP Arvind Kumar Sharma. In t...