Chandigarh, Oct 5 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Kumari Selja on Saturday said the people of Haryana have been waiting for the assembly election to change the current dispensation in the state and bring her party to power.
She was speaking to reporters after casting her vote in Hisar district. Polling began for all the 90 assembly seats in Haryana on Saturday morning.
"We have seen this inclination in people even before the Lok Sabha polls, they have been waiting for this day to change the rule and elect a Congress government," Selja said here.
The Congress MP from Sirsa also appealed to voters to exercise their franchise to decide their future in Haryana.
Asked if she would become the chief minister should the Congress win, Selja said it was for the party high command to decide. "After the result comes, the party high command will decide."
Replying to another question, Selja said she did not need to talk about her seniority and that it was evident and everybody knew about it.
She also asserted that the Congress would form the government in the state. "People have made up their minds that the Congress will form the next government," Selja added.
On alleged infighting within the Haryana Congress unit, she asked the BJP to set its house in order as she alleged that the ruling party's leaders have been fighting with each other for the last 10 years.
On BJP leader Ashok Tanwar joining the Congress, Selja said people come and go during elections.
Meanwhile, Congress MP Randeep Singh Surjewala said his party was going to win the Haryana assembly polls.
"The Congress is ahead in over 70 seats and the party will register a victory with the blessings of the people. It will not be the victory of the Congress but that of the people of Haryana," he told reporters in Kaithal after casting his vote.
Surjewala's son Aditya Surjewala is contesting from the Kaithal seat.
Slamming the BJP, Surjewala claimed that the people of Haryana would give the party a befitting reply for its misgovernance and atrocities on farmers, Dalits and backward classes.
"People will sound a new bugle of change with 'vote ki chot'," he added.
On the names doing the rounds for the chief minister's post, if the Congress wins, the Rajya Sabha MP said the priority was to ensure the party's victory.
"It is right that there is nothing wrong in having aspirations in politics. If I have an agenda of ensuring water reaches every field, giving employment to youth and promoting trade, then naturally, a person has an aspiration to run the state.
"But our aspirations are not above the discipline of the party. Whatever decision Rahul Gandhi takes in consultation with (Congress president Mallikarjun) Kharge ji and the MLAs, it will be acceptable to everyone," he said.