Despite high hope, AAP fails to make impact in Haryana

Even in Hisar, the home constituency of Kejriwal, bureaucrat-turned-AAP nominee Y S Khyalia garnered just 28,490 votes and finished at number fifth spot.

In Bhiwani-Mahendergarh constituency too, AAP candidate Lalit Aggarwal ended up at fifth spot while in Faridabad, the party candidate Purshottam Dagar finished at fourth spot.

In Rohtak, AAP candidate Naveen Jaihind, who was expected to give good fight to sitting Congress MP Deepinder Singh Hooda, managed just 46,759 votes and ended up at the fourth spot.

Notably, Arvind Kejriwal, who was then a member of the ‘Team Anna Hazare', had started his campaign in Haryana during the Hisar Lok Sabha bypolls in 2011.