Bharatiya Janata Party's Puhana candidate Mohd Aizaz Khan is keeping employment, health, and education on focus for the Haryana Assembly polls. Khan is pitted against his cousin and Congress rival Mohd Illyas.
"Employment, health, and education will be my top focus (if elected). My aim will also be to bring a university to the region, improve infrastructure, and fulfill the dreams which my father had for this region...Going by the huge support of the people I am getting, I am confident that 'lotus' will bloom here," the 56-year-old law graduate cited.
The BJP candidate said people remember the time when his father Chaudhary Sardar Khan, a former Haryana minister, gave jobs to nearly 4,600 youth from the Mewat region.
He asserted that the BJP government in Haryana has also given thousands of jobs to the youth across the state purely on a merit basis, "The government has ended the 'parchi, kharchi' system which prevailed earlier and now jobs are given purely on merit basis and people in our region have also got jobs," Khan further added.
BJP has fielded two Muslim candidates in the Haryana Assembly polls including Khan. The other is Naseem Ahmed, a former MLA, who is in the fray from the Ferozepur Jhirkha segment.
Both Punhana and Ferozepur-Jhirkha constituencies fall in Muslim-dominated Nuh district in the Mewat region.
While Ahmed had earlier switched over to the BJP from the INLD, Khan joined the saffron outfit after leaving Congress five years ago.
About last year's Nuh riots, Khan said peace and brotherhood prevails.
In Ferozepur Jhirkha, Ahmed's supporters appear confident about his win.
"Inshallah, Naseem bhai is going to win this time," Tasleem Khan, a supporter of the former MLA, said.