Haryana Elections 2014 : Tough days Ahead for BJP and Congress By Deepak Parvatiyar September 15, 2014 The common thread between Haryana and West Bengal is that none of them is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastion. While the party is yet to gain a foothold in West Bengal politics, the only time it could do well in Haryana was when it had a pact with late Bansi Lal’s Haryana Vikas Party (HVP) at the insistence of Narendra Modi, who was then the BJP national secretary in charge of the party affairs in Haryana. Sujoy Dhar, Kolkata-based correspondent of a foreign news agency who has covered the West Bengal elections for the last two decades, says that he had never before seen such a ‘charged up’ BJP cadre as he discovered recently while covering the assembly by-elections for the Basirhat South seat in North 24-Parganas and the Chowringhee seat in Kolkata. Will Modi Effect Work in Haryana? Can the same be said about Haryana where Assembly elections are to b
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