Chandigarh: BJP candidate Bhavya Bishnoi, the grandson of former Haryana Congress chief minister Bhajan Lal, received the celebrated Adampur bypoll on Sunday.
Bhavya, 29, has retained the seat that has been with the Bhajan Lal’s household since 1968. Sunday’s win is the fifteenth consecutive ballot success for the Bhajan Lal clan. Nonetheless, that is the primary time that this seat has gone into BJP’s kitty.
Bhavya will likely be one of many youngest MLAs within the 90-seat Haryana Meeting. He has graduated from the London College of Economics adopted by a grasp’s diploma from Oxford.
The bypoll came about as Bhavya’s father and sitting MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi resigned from the Congress and joined the BJP in August. Kuldeep a two-time MP and four-time MLA, was expelled from the Congress in June after he cross voted towards Congress Rajya Sabha candidate Ajay Maken.
The BJP was immediate to provide the ticket to Bhavya in order that he may debut from the household stronghold. Kuldeep has been attempting to launch his son into electoral politics for the previous few years.
Within the 2019 basic election, Bhavya had contested unsuccessfully on a Congress ticket towards BJP’s Brijendra Singh in Hisar. He had even misplaced his deposit in that election.
On Sunday, Bhavya defeated his nearest contender Congress veteran chief Jai Prakash by a margin of over 16,000 votes. Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) candidate Kurda Ram Nambardar obtained 5,248 votes, whereas Aam Aadmi Occasion (AAP) candidate Satinder Singh may solely muster 3,420 votes.
Aside from contesting from the Bishnoi house seat, Bhavya obtained the benefit of the dominant Jat votes getting divided because the AAP, the Congress, the INLD had fielded candidates from the group.
The vote share of the Bishnois on the seat has been steadily rising. Bhavya mopped up 67,492 votes on this bypoll, bettering his father Kuldeep’s tally of 63,693 votes within the 2019 meeting elections. In 2014, Kuldeep obtained 48,224 votes. That yr he was the Haryana Janhit Congress occasion candidate, a celebration his father Bhajan Lal had shaped in 2007 after leaving the Congress.
Adampur was a stronghold of the Congress, the house bastion of three-time chief minister Bhajan Lal. Nonetheless, in 2005 following the meeting elections, Bhajan Lal obtained upset with the Congress selecting Bhupinder Singh Hooda over him for the submit of the chief minister. He left the occasion and created the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) in 2007.
Within the 2009 meeting elections, the HJC received six essential seats. Many of the winners, nonetheless, defected to the Congress as Hooda grew to become the chief minister for the second time period.
Kuldeep and his spouse Renuka have been the one two HJC winners in 2014. Two years later, Kuldeep merged the HJC with the Congress however the bonhomie lasted until August this yr.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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