Chandigarh: Senior Haryana politician Kuldeep Bishnoi, who give up the Congress to affix the BJP in August 2022, Friday threw his hat within the ring for nomination from the Hisar parliamentary seat in subsequent 12 months’s election.
Throughout a tour of villages in his household’s pocket borough Adampur, represented by his son Bhavya Bishnoi, Bishnoi introduced that he would contest from Hisar — of which Adampur is a component — if the occasion permits it.
Hisar is presently represented by Brijendra Singh of the BJP, who received the seat in 2019 by defeating Dushyant Chautala of the Jannayak Janta Celebration (JJP) and Bhavya Bishnoi, then with the Congress.
Now, the JJP is a part of the ruling alliance with the BJP, though a tie-up for 2024 has not been finalised but. Hisar is alleged to be one of many distinguished components hindering alliance talks.
Brijendra Singh and his father, former Union Minister Birender Singh, have opposed the continuation of the BJP-JJP tie-up due to Dushyant’s declare to Hisar in addition to Birender Singh’s conventional meeting seat, Uchana Kalan (which Dushyant received by defeating Birender Singh’s spouse, former MLA Premlata, in 2019).
All three come from distinguished political households and the competition for Hisar is more likely to emerge as an attention-grabbing one to look at.
Contacted by ThePrint on his cell phone, Bishnoi confirmed his want to contest the 2024 parliamentary ballot from Hisar.
“Hisar parliamentary seat is particular for my household as a result of our conventional Adampur meeting constituency is a part of this for the reason that 2009 basic elections, the primary after the delimitation train,” he stated.
“Of the 4 elections (2009, 2011 bypoll, 2014 and 2019) held for Hisar parliamentary seat after the delimitation, my relations have contested all and received twice — my father (former Haryana CM) Chaudhary Bhajan Lal received in 2009 and I received the seat within the byelection necessitated by his demise in 2011. Earlier than delimitation, our Adampur constituency was a part of the Bhiwani parliamentary seat and I received that too in 2004,” stated Bishnoi.
Bishnoi stated the individuals of Hisar had been like his relations ever for the reason that occasions of Chaudhary Bhajan Lal and “they need me to contest from this seat”.
Nevertheless, he hastened so as to add that it was solely as much as the highest management of the BJP. “Given an opportunity, I’ll win this seat by an enormous margin,” stated Bishnoi.
Bishnoi’s announcement comes shut on the heels of his assembly with Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on 28 June, the place he handed the latter a letter searching for OBC standing for the Bishnoi group.
आज मेरे नेता आदरणीय श्री @AmitShah जी से लंबी मुलाक़ात हुई।बेहतरीन व्यक्तित्व के धनी अमित भाई में एक अजीब चुंबकीय शक्ति है जो किसी को भी अपना बना लेती है।हमारे बिश्नोई समाज को केंद्र में #ओबीसी में शामिल करने की प्रार्थना की एवं हरियाणा और राजस्थान पर विस्तार से राजनीतिक चर्चा की pic.twitter.com/EwhsRvXueT
— Kuldeep Bishnoi (@bishnoikuldeep) June 28, 2023
In response to a tweet posted by Bishnoi, the 2 had a “detailed dialogue” on Haryana and Rajasthan, each of that are headed for polls.
The Rajasthan meeting polls are scheduled for later this 12 months, and the Bishnoi group is alleged to affect 20 to 22 of the state’s 200 seats.
Mukam, essentially the most sacred temple for the Bishnoi group, can also be located alongside Rajasthan’s Bikaner-Jodhpur freeway. Bhajan Lal is considered essentially the most revered chief of the Bishnoi group in Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan. Kuldeep Bishnoi has been the patron of the ‘All India Bishnoi Sabha’ since his father’s demise.
In organisational appointments made by BJP president J.P. Nadda Friday, the occasion named Bishnoi as ‘seh prabhari (co-incharge)’ for the Rajasthan polls. Prahlad Joshi was named ‘prabhari’ and Nitin Patel as the opposite ‘seh prabhari’.
Bishnoi subsequently thanked PM Modi, Shah and Nadda in a tweet.
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Households of political stalwarts
The three 2019 candidates from the Hisar seat — Brijendra Singh, Dushyant Chautala and Bhavya Bishnoi — all come from distinguished political households.
Brijendra Singh, who resigned from the IAS to contest the 2019 election, is son of Chaudhary Birender Singh, a grandson of Chhotu Ram, a pre-Independence-era chief thought of the tallest Jat chief so far.
Birender Singh has served as cupboard minister in Haryana in addition to on the Centre.
Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala is the great-grandson of former deputy PM Chaudhary Devi Lal, some of the distinguished leaders from Haryana. Devi Lal turned Haryana CM in 1977 and 1987 and went on to turn out to be deputy PM in 1989. His son Om Prakash Chautala, convicted in a trainer recruitment rip-off, can also be a former CM.
Kuldeep Bishnoi’s father Bhajan Lal was Haryana’s CM from 1979 to 1985, after which once more from 1991 to 1996. Bhajan Lal received the Adampur meeting seat for the primary time in 1968, and since then the household has received the constituency consecutively in all of the 13 elections held up to now.
Bhajan Lal received seven elections in a row from 1968 to 2000. Kuldeep Bishnoi received 4 occasions in 2005, 2009, 2014 and 2019, his spouse Renuka Bishnoi received the seat in a 2012 bypoll, whereas Bishnoi’s son Bhavya received the 2022 bypoll, which was held after Bishnoi vacated the seat earlier than switching over from the Congress.
Bishnoi’s earlier alliance with BJP
When the Congress named Bhupinder Singh Hooda as CM after the 2005 meeting polls in Haryana, overlooking Bhajan Lal’s declare, Bishnoi parted methods with the Congress and floated the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) together with his father. This, whilst his elder brother Chander Mohan was deputy CM in Hooda’s cupboard.
Within the 2009 meeting polls, his occasion received six seats, however 5 of the candidates defected to the Congress to help the Hooda authorities. Earlier than the 2014 polls, the BJP entered into an alliance with the HJC and Bishnoi was the CM face for the alliance. Nevertheless, the alliance ended after the HJC did not win a single seat within the 2014 parliamentary polls.
Bishnoi and Renuka have been the 2 MLAs of the HJC who received in 2014. Nevertheless, Bishnoi merged his occasion with the Congress in 2016.
(Edited by Sunanda Ranjan)
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