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The campaign for the assembly polls came to an end on Thursday evening with the BJP hoping to buck the anti-incumbency and Congress, eyeing a comeback after a decade-long hiatus, going all out to wrest power. 

"The Congress means a syndicate of fixers and son-in-law," he said in an apparent reference to controversial land deals involving Congress leader Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra when the party was in power during 2004-14 with Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the chief minister. 

"The fight is about this. If the Constitution does not remain, then you, the poor, would not have anything. Your land, money, and water will vanish. These will go into the hands of select 20-25 people," he said.

Soon after, Tanwar, who had joined the BJP earlier this year, walked onto the stage and it was announced that "aaj unki ghar vapsi ho gayi ha (today, he has returned to the Congress fold)".

He joined the Congress here in the presence of Partap Singh Bajwa, Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, the party said in a statement.  Bajwa formally inducted Singh into the party, it added.

Himachal CM campaigns in Panchkula, says only Cong can give welfare policies to the state, gurantees Oold Pension Scheme for employees in Haryana.

Referring to the Congress' Haryana unit, he said, "Here Congress has become Hooda Congress. Even Rahul Gandhi has to come here with permission. I am told he (Gandhi) had some desire for an alliance (with AAP), but Hooda refused so it did not happen."

Notably, Chhoker is seeking re-election from the Samalkha constituency in Panipat for the Haryana Assembly elections scheduled for October 5.

Referring to the Agnipath scheme, Gandhi claimed that Agniveers would not get any pension and after four years of service, they would again have to look for employment. "This is what Modiji has given you," she added.

"They dont know about jawans, nor kisans, they only know the RSS' agenda. What else they know. No one is farmer in the RSS or BJP. This is why they don't understand the pain of the farmers," he said.

"While en route to this place, a man stopped me. He told me he runs a small business. He said Modi and the Haryana government destroyed him," the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said as he blamed demonetisation and "wrong" GST.