Haryana Results 2024: Dharmendra Pradhan is without doubt one of the closet aides of Amit Shah.
New Delhi:
The architect of the BJP’s historic third victory in Haryana, Dharmendra Pradhan, is something however flamboyant. A silent employee who stays within the background, he additionally is without doubt one of the closet aides of the celebration’s chief strategist Amit Shah.
The Odisha chief, who as soon as dealt with the essential petroleum ministry and is now in command of schooling, has emerged over time because the BJP’s go-to individual for troublesome states and difficult electoral battles. Which is how, earlier than Haryana, he was assigned the elections in Uttarakhand in 2017, Uttar Pradesh in 2022. His long-term mission was house state Odisha, which the BJP gained this yr .
He was additionally the one that was given a single task within the 2021 battle for West Bengal — deal with Nandigram, the constituency from the place Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had misplaced, regardless of the celebration’s sweeping victory throughout the state.
Sources within the BJP mentioned for these causes, he was the apparent man for the job in Haryana, a state the place the celebration was battling anti-incumbency and a number of disgruntled sections — Jats, farmers, military aspirants sad with the Agniveer scheme, celebration staff shaken by the high-pitched Congress marketing campaign and in the end, rebels throughout the BJP sad with ticket distribution.
Mr Pradhan’s battle plan, sources mentioned, began with hunkering down on the spot. For over a month, he didn’t budge from the state, organising camps at Rohtak, Kurukshetra and Panchkula.
He saved an ear to the bottom — listening to celebration staff and leaders and liaising on their behalf with the Central management. He enthused staff, demystified the Congress marketing campaign and helped with the candidate choice.
“He would go to floor zero and maintain small conferences… he would take actual time suggestions from the employees and inform the management and rectify the shortcomings instantly. He additionally pacified the offended folks in Haryana, recognized the weak cubicles and adopted robust staff from different events,” a BJP chief mentioned.
He even defused the stress that cropped up after the candidates’ record was drawn up. From round 25 rebels, the celebration needed to take care of solely three by the point the nomination withdrawal rolled round, BJP sources mentioned.
“After the announcement of the names of BJP candidates, there got here a time when it appeared that the insurgent candidates of BJP would spoil the sport. More than two dozen insurgent leaders have been bent on contesting elections. But it was the success of Mr Pradhan and his crew that because the date of withdrawal of nomination papers got here close to, solely three rebels have been left,” a BJP chief mentioned on situation of anonymity.
His efforts paid off handsomely. The BJP has now gained its third straight time period in Haryana, rising victorious in 48 of the state’s 90 meeting seats. The Congress has gained 37 seats.
The BJP has executed nicely in Jammu too, profitable 29 of the 90 seats within the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.