Senior Congress leader and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Monday claimed the poll result in Sonipat Lok Sabha seat would determine the outcome of the Assembly elections in the state due later this year.
He also claimed that voters of Haryana have already made up their mind to bring the Congress back to power in the state.
Hooda, the sitting Congress MLA from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi in Rohtak, is contesting the parliamentary polls from Sonipat and is pitted against BJP's sitting MP Ramesh Chander Kaushik and Jannayak Janata Party's (JJP) Digvijay Singh Chautala.
He took out a roadshow in the Safidon Assembly segment on Monday and told the crowd, "The entire country is looking at the Sonipat Lok Sabha seat as a barometer of political opinion in the state as the party that wins the seat would form the next government in Haryana."
Asserting that the Congress represents the will and aspirations of the people of the state, he said, "The party's agenda is to restore pro-people and pro-poor policies that were initiated by the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre and party's dispensation in Haryana, but were discontinued when the BJP came to power."
Claiming that the BJP government lost its popularity among all sections of the society, the Congress leader said, "The farmers, poor, the backwards, government employees, traders and various other sections of the society are unhappy and they have made up their mind to vote out the BJP."
Hitting out at the BJP government for "failing" to provide jobs to youth, he said, "Those who are well-qualified have only managed to find menial jobs... This is an insult to those who worked hard to excel in academics."