Election update Haryana

• No sharing, all for a seat: same family, different poll colours

The sitting MPs of both Faridabad and Gurgaon are from the Congress, but their family members are contesting on tickets from other parties. And in the run-up to the D-day — October 13 — there’s no love lost between them. Read in detail in The Indian Express

• Rebels out to spoil Hooda’s party

Though the Congress waited till the eleventh hour to declare candidates to rule out chances of rebellion, on more than a dozen seats, strong rebels are giving party nominees sleepless nights. And a majority of these official nominees happen to be close to Hooda. Despite the Chief Minister’s confident assertion recently that all the rebels would withdraw soon, that hasn’t happened. Read in detail in The Indian Express

• From cycles to 24-hr power, it’s raining promises in Haryana

If the Congress has promised bicycles to all girls to enable them to go to school, the INLD has something better for them — a scooter for each student after she completes Class XII. Read whole article in The India Expres...

• Haryana ensures it’s few big happy families

The electoral battle in the state features the scions of the three famous Lals of Haryana — Bansi Lal, Devi Lal and Bhajan Lal — along with the latest “political family” of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda whose father was a minister in Pepsu, and his son Deepender Hooda is a Lok Sabha member who was elected for the second time from Rohtak. While Hooda has refrained from fielding his wife despite vocal demand from a section of the party, there is a surfeit of relatives contesting the elections from all the major parties. Read whole article in The Indian Express...