After BJP won Haryana Assembly elections, BJP's Mohan Badoli said it was a victory of 36 'biradaris' and hard work of BJP workers. "It's a victory of PM Narendra Modi's policies in Haryana," he added. As per Kurukshetra University's Professor Sunil Kumar, "36 'biradaris' is a broad social classification of various castes and communities that have historically resided in Haryana."