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Devendra Atri with Haryana Chief Minster Nayab Singh Saini astatine a Jan Arshiwad rally successful Uchana Kalan. (Photo: X/@Devender4Uchana)
The Uchana Kalan Assembly spot of Haryana’s Jind territory has been swinging betwixt the Om Prakash Chautala and Birender Singh families since 1977. On Tuesday, the BJP’s Devender Chatar Bhuj Atri managed to wrest the spot with conscionable 32 votes — the slimmest borderline successful the Haryana elections this time.
As has been the lawsuit successful this high-profile Jat-dominated seat, members of some families contested from Uchana Kalan this clip too. The stakes accrued further erstwhile erstwhile lawman Chief Minister and Jannayak Janata Party main Dushyant Chautala, the grandson of erstwhile Haryana CM Om Prakash Chautala, contested from the spot again.
Former Union curate Birender Singh’s lad Brijendra Singh decided to contention from the spot connected a Congress ticket. It was expected to beryllium a neck-and-neck conflict betwixt the 2 governmental heirs, but the results threw much surprises than expected. One, Dushyant ended up coming fifth, polling conscionable 7,950 votes and losing his information deposit.
Two, the conflict ended up coming down to Brijendra and Atri, with the last circular placing the BJP up by conscionable 32 votes. Atri went connected to canvass 48,968 votes, portion Brijendra got 48,936 votes. The lone clip the BJP won this spot successful its electoral past was successful 2014 erstwhile Birender Singh’s woman Prem Lata was the enactment candidate.
Dushyant Chautala astatine the ‘Jan Aashish Rally’ organised successful my his enactment successful Uchana Kalan. (Photo: X/@Dchautala)
Multiple factors are said to person been down Brijendra’s loss, but the astir evident 1 was the 12 Independents successful the fray.
At slightest 3 candidates who contested arsenic Independents caused a large dent successful the anti-BJP ballot stock that could person either gone to Congress oregon JJP.
Virender Ghogharian who contested arsenic Independent got 31,456 votes and finished third, portion different Independent named Vikas got 13,458 votes and finished fourth.
Dilbag Sandil, a 3rd Independent, got 7,373 votes and finished sixth, portion the INLD’s Vinod Pal Singh Dulganch got 2,653 votes and finished seventh.
In 2019, Dushyant polled 92,504 votes and defeated the BJP’s Prem Lata by implicit 40,000 votes.
Earlier, successful 2014, Prem Lata defeated Dushyant, past an Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate, by 7,480 votes.
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