The opposition leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda criticised the govt over lack of arrangements during the current crop yielding season.

Kanda has played a central role in conjuring support for the BJP in the hung Haryana Assembly

If BJP can garner support from the Independents, it will not need JJP's support to form government.

Meanwhile, Congress high command too had summoned former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda to the national capital, sources in the party said.

The BJP, which had set a target of winning 75 seats ahead of the polls, is leading in 38 seats, while the Congress is ahead in 32 constituencies.

In Maharashtra, the voter turnout almost matched the 63.38 per cent polling recorded in the last state elections in 2014.

Describing the manifesto as 'Sankalp Patra', the party in its manifesto promised 33 per cent reservation to women in government jobs and private institutions in the state and free rides in Haryana roadways buses.

On Wednesday, scores of Congress workers staged a protest outside the residence of Sonia Gandhi over the manner in which tickets had been distributed.

Training guns on the ruling BJP government, Dangi said: 'The government has done nothing on the ground in the last five years. They have only talked about it in the media'.

The assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, and by-polls in 64 Assembly seats, present the Congress party a chance to halt the saffron juggernaut and regain its lost glory