Reportedly there are over 20 candidates in the fray for Haryana's Thanesar Assembly seat, but the fight to watch out for would be between BJP MLA Subhash sudha and ashok Arora, who recently switched to Congress from INLD, to challenge the sitting legislator in his pocket borough. Meanwhile both sudha and Arora joined active politics in the early 90s as workers of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD). While Arora was elected as MLA from Thanesar in 1990 through a by-election, sudha became its municipal council chairman in 1994.
Furthermore Thanesar Municipal Council has been a sudha family stronghold since 1994. Meanwhile Subhash sudha was the municipal council chairperson for one term, his wife Uma sudha is the sitting chairperson in her third term. Earlier Arora contested all the assembly elections from Thanesar since 1990 and was later re-elected from there in the years 1996, 2000 and 2009. Even though there are 20 other candidates including from INLD, Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), Aam Adami Party (AAP) in the fray but the main contest is being seen between Arora and sitting MLA Sudha.
Moreover residents hail transparency in recruitment in government jobs, civic issues like traffic congestion, water logging, and poor drainage, along with rural distress are of major concern in the constituency and as per report Haryana goes to polls on 21 October and the results will be declared on 24 October.
