While the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls was underway, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini charged on Friday, November 6, 2026, that the state's Congress unit was too consumed by its own internal power struggle to focus on the ground-level work voters actually need.

Posting on X in Hindi, Saini wrote: 'SIR के समय में कांग्रेस के BLA, हुड्डा-सैलजा की कुश्ती में व्यस्त थे!' — 'During SIR, Congress's booth-level agents were busy with the Hooda-Selja wrestling match!' The dig is pointed: Booth Level Agents, or BLAs, are the foot-soldiers deployed by parties to assist voters during the Special Intensive Revision process, when citizens can register, update, or correct entries on the electoral roll. If BLAs are absent or distracted, genuine voters risk being left off the list.

The Hooda-Selja Fault Line That Never Healed

Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Haryana's Chief Minister for a decade between 2005 and 2014, remains the dominant force in the state Congress but has never commanded unchallenged authority. Kumari Selja, a former Union minister and senior Congress leader, represents a rival power centre — one that is frequently vocal about being sidelined by the Hooda camp. The fault line between them surfaced publicly during the 2019 and 2024 assembly elections, with seat allocations, campaign resources, and party appointments all becoming flashpoints.

Saini's post weaponises that history. By framing BLA inactivity as a symptom of the Hooda-Selja feud, he ties an administrative accusation — poor booth management during a formal Election Commission exercise — directly to Congress's most persistent vulnerability: a divided house.

Why BLA Preparedness During SIR Actually Matters

The Special Intensive Revision is not a ceremonial exercise. It is the mechanism through which eligible citizens are added to, or corrected on, the official electoral roll ahead of an election. Parties field BLAs specifically to ensure their own supporters are properly enrolled. A BLA who is absent, demoralized, or focused on internal faction battles is a BLA who is not doing that job. For Congress, any gap in coverage could translate directly into missing votes when it matters most.

The BJP has made this a recurring argument across Haryana election cycles: that Congress's internal dysfunction is not merely a leadership soap opera but a concrete operational failure that affects ordinary voters' access to the electoral process.

BJP's Strategy: Turn a Factional Feud Into an Accountability Story

Saini's post is brief but structurally deliberate. It does not attack individual candidates or policies — it attacks organisational competence. That framing is harder for Congress to rebut than a simple policy dispute, because it asks the opposition to prove a negative: that their workers were, in fact, doing their jobs during SIR. Any formal response from Congress on booth-level preparedness will be watched closely as an indicator of how seriously the party takes the charge.

For Haryana's voters, the subtext is clear: a party that cannot manage its own internal elections, the argument goes, is poorly placed to manage theirs.