Chandigarh, March 16 -- Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda on Monday asserted that the party won the Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana despite the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) allegedly resorting to illegal means to tilt the results in their favour.

Hooda expressed his gratitude to party workers for standing firm under pressure while accusing the ruling party of attempting to "strangle democracy" to win a single legislative seat.

Deepender Singh Hooda, while speaking to the reporters, said, "BJP tried every single illicit method... They made Gujarat's Dy CM the Observer, strangled democracy just for a Rajya Sabha seat, but I congratulate the workers of the party for working under every kind of pressure, and this seat went in favour of the...