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Paving the way for a new realignment in State and national politics, the Haryana Janhit Congress-BJP combine won the Hisar Lok Sabha by-election on Monday. The Congress stood a distant third, losing even its security deposit. The embarrassing defeat of the Congress triggered speculation about an impending internal turmoil in the State unit of the party.
The margin of the victory of HJC-BJP candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi was mere 6,335 votes as INLD candidate Ajay Chautala held on to his stronghold in the rural area. It seems, there was a complete polarisation of Jat votes in favour of the INLD. The dominant community deserted the Congress and saw Chautala as a viable alternative in the State.
Congress got much less votes than it got in the last Lok Sabha polls, indicating that the campaign of Team Anna to vote against the grand old party indeed worked.
Interestingly, the constituency is considered a stronghold of AICC general secretary Birender Singh, considered a detractor of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in State politics. The sitting MLA from the seat is INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala, who had defeated Birender in the last Assembly poll.
Bishnoi rode the sympathy wave, generated by the death of his father, and fought the election on several issues, including scam-tainted Congress rule in State and Centre.
The margin of the victory of HJC-BJP candidate Kuldeep Bishnoi was mere 6,335 votes as INLD candidate Ajay Chautala held on to his stronghold in the rural area. It seems, there was a complete polarisation of Jat votes in favour of the INLD. The dominant community deserted the Congress and saw Chautala as a viable alternative in the State.
Congress got much less votes than it got in the last Lok Sabha polls, indicating that the campaign of Team Anna to vote against the grand old party indeed worked.
Interestingly, the constituency is considered a stronghold of AICC general secretary Birender Singh, considered a detractor of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in State politics. The sitting MLA from the seat is INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala, who had defeated Birender in the last Assembly poll.
Bishnoi rode the sympathy wave, generated by the death of his father, and fought the election on several issues, including scam-tainted Congress rule in State and Centre.
