Chandigarh. After the election results of Jammu-Kashmir and Haryana, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal has said that overconfidence is not good. He did not take anyone's name but it is believed that he was taking a dig at Congress. There were talks of alliance between the two parties which could not materialize. When the results came, Congress fell flat on its face while AAP was left scratching its head.

The attention proved costly for Hooda.

BJP is winning 49-50 seats. In the Modi wave of 2014, it had won only 47 seats whereas Congress seems to be shrinking to 37. The question is what mistake did the Congress, which was in its favor, make that such a big upset happened in Haryana? It is believed that the Congress' dependence on the Jat community and handing over everything to Bhupendra Hooda made the situation worse. It is claimed that there are 33 percent Jats in Haryana whereas experts believe that the number of Jats is not more than 25 percent.

Jats brought down Congress.

Congress felt that a large number of Jats had participated in the farmers' agitation for MSP, so in ticket distribution, 28 out of 89 tickets were given to Jats, and the entire command was handed over to Bhupendra Hooda. It is said that 72 tickets were given at Hooda's request. BJP also gave 16 tickets to Jats but it took care of backward and Dalits as well as Brahmins and gave tickets to all sections.

BJP distanced itself from Khattar

People were angry with former CM Manohar Lal Khattar, so they distanced themselves from him and put CM Naib Singh Saini forward. They remained silent on the aggression shown by Congress and let the contest be Jat vs non-Jat. BJP had realized that it would not get Jat votes, so it let the message go that only it could save non-Jats from the atrocities of Jats.

Salja also  hurt

On the other hand, Kumari Shailata got upset with Bhupendra Hooda's excessive prominence, and the message was sent that only Jats have prominence in Congress, not Dalits. The result was that when the results came, the Jat vote bank became the biggest strength of Congress and Jat leader Bhupendra Hooda became its biggest weakness.