The 90-member Haryana Assembly election will be held on October 1, with votes counted on October 4.
In the June Lok Sabha elections, both the BJP and Congress won five seats each in Haryana. This contrasts with the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, where the BJP had won all ten seats in the state.
The Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) have formed alliances with the Azad Samaj Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), respectively, to secure dalit votes in the 17 reserved Assembly seats.
The AAP, which contested 46 seats in 2019 but saw a poor vote share of 0.48%, plans to contest all seats independently this time, signaling a shift from its previous alliance-based strategy.
Northern districts like Karnal, Kurukshetra, and Ambala, which were central to the farmers' movement against the repealed farm laws, will be crucial. The BJP lost Ambala to Congress in the last Lok Sabha election but retained Karnal and Kurukshetra.
Constituencies such as Karnal, Rewari, Ellenabad, Gurugram, and Kurukshetra are critical battlegrounds. Political heavyweights, including incumbent CM Manohar Lal Khattar, INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala, and BJP's Rao Inderjit Singh, will play key roles.