How Khattar’s constituency- Karnal voted?
CM Khattar during his Jan Aashirwaad Yatra in Karnal. (Image: Karnal Breaking News) With the slogan of ’75 plus’ and a target of winning his constituency Karnal with one lakh plus margin’, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar kicked-off his campaign for assembly elections from Karnal in the last week of September. Local leaders had told Khattar to focus on the other parts of the state and forget about Karnal. Party leaders had assured him of a hefty campaign and a comfortable victory. In 2014, when the city voted for him as an MLA, he received 58.78 percent of votes and won with a margin of 63,773 votes. The voter turnout was 67.80 percent in the city. While in 2019 elections, Khattar bagged away 63.72 percent of total votes and won with a margin of 45,188 votes. But the victory margin of one lakh couldn’t be achieved. The voter turnout in the state was 63.84 percent but only 52.29 percent of voters cast their votes in Karnal. BJP has built strong cadre nat