CANDIDATES’ PROFILE

KUMARI SELJA, Ambala (reserved)

Kumari Selja, 56, a prominent Dalit leader in Haryana, is currently a Rajya Sabha member. She has been elected to Lok Sabha four times and has been Union minister twice. She was first elected as an MP in 1991 and again in 1996 from Sirsa, twice from Ambala.

SHRUTI CHOUDHARY, Bhiwani-Mahendergarh

Shruti Choudhary, 43, was elected as an MP from Bhiwani-Mahendergarh, in 2009. She is the granddaughter of former chief minister Bansi Lal and daughter of late Surender Singh and Tosham MLA Kiran Chaudhary.

ASHOK TANWAR, Sirsa (reserved)

Tanwar, 43, also a Dalit leader, has been national president of the Youth Congress and National Students Union of India. He was elected an MP from Sirsa in 2009. He again fought in 2014 from the same seat but was defeated by INLD’s Charanjit Rori.

CAPT AJAY YADAV, Gurugram

Capt Ajay Yadav, 61, has been an member of legislative assembly six times and has handled various departments including finance, irrigation and PWD, as minister in the state. He is a tall leader from Ahirwal. Yadav faces BJP sitting MP Rao Inderjit

DEEPENDER HOODA, Rohtak

Deepender, 41, the sitting MP from Rohtak, has won Lok Sabha polls thrice in a row since 2005 from the same constituency. Son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, he was the youngest parliamentarian in 2005.

LALIT NAGAR, Faridabad

Lalit Nagar, 54, who is the sitting MLA from, Tigaon, Faridabad, is one of the Gurjar faces of the Congress. Nagar has recently been in news after he openly alleged that several illegal activities were being carried out in Faridabad with full knowledge of BJP MP Krishan Pal Gurjar.