India, Oct. 5 -- The outcome of assembly elections in Haryana will be significant for at least five reasons. One, this is the first state polls since the general election results were announced in June this year. Its outcome will have a bearing on the political mood ahead of the upcoming assembly polls in Maharashtra and Jharkhand. Two, it will be a test of the BJP's resilience in holding on to office in states, which it has managed successfully in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh for decades though the party's rise in Haryana is more recent - since 2014. Three, issues such as the Agnipath scheme for recruitment to security forces and farmer discontent have been at the heart of the poll campaign and the results are likely to impact the Centre's stance on these going ahead. Four, the BJP's social engineering of building a coalition of non-dominant OBC communities to neutralise dominant caste-centric political mobilisation is on test in Haryana. Five, this is the first election since the Supreme Court order on sub-categorisation in Dalit quota and how the Dalit vote, close to 20% of the electorate, responds politically will be keenly watched....