Bhajan Lal family citadel falls after 56 years as ex-IAS officer edges out Kuldeep Bishnoi son

Parkash excessively has a transportation to the Bhajan Lal household arsenic his uncle Ramji Lal, a erstwhile Rajya Sabha MP, was its longtime loyalist.

Among the 1.78 lakh voters successful Adampur, Jats marque up astir one-third of the full votes. The assemblage was said to person mostly voted for Parkash. In the caller Lok Sabha polls too, the assemblage had reportedly rallied down the winning Congress campaigner from Hisar, Jai Prakash.

In presumption of the communities’ numerical strengths successful the Adampur seat, Jats are followed by OBCs, Bishnois and SCs. Bishnois person been accepted supporters of the Bhajan Lal family, which belongs to the community.

After the results were announced connected Tuesday, Parkash, who is from the OBC Jangra caste, said: “The (Bhajan Lal) household sanction is respectable for me. The interests of 36 biradari (communities) and the improvement of Adampur would beryllium my priority. I volition enactment among those radical and beryllium a comrade during their ups and downs.”

Bhajan Lal’s importance

Like astir founders of the governmental dynasties, Bhajan Lal had risen up the ranks, starting from a stint with the panchayats. He won his archetypal Assembly spot successful a bypoll for Adampur successful 1968.

In 1979, Bhajan Lal became the CM for the archetypal clip erstwhile helium on with 37 Janata Party MLAs joined the Congress. He became the CM again successful 1982 and 1991.

However, the Bhajan Lal family’s power successful authorities authorities has been waning since 2005, erstwhile the precocious stalwart had mislaid the CM’s contention to past emerging Congress’s Jat look Bhupinder Singh Hooda. In a conciliatory move, Bhajan Lal’s elder lad Chander Mohan was made the Deputy CM successful the Hooda authorities then.

Bhajan Lal near the Congress to signifier the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) with his younger lad Kuldeep Bishnoi successful 2007. The HJC won six seats successful the 2009 Assembly polls, but 5 of his MLAs defected to the Congress, which, with 40 seats, had past fallen abbreviated of a bulk successful the 90-member House.

Kuldeep Bishnoi faced much jolts aft Bhajan Lal passed distant successful 2011. He managed to clasp his father’s Hisar Lok Sabha spot successful the bypoll with BJP support. But by the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the HJC mislaid some Hisar and Sirsa seats it had contested successful confederation with the BJP. Kuldeep himself mislaid from Hisar to Dushyant Chautala, who was past the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate.

Ahead of the 2014 Assembly polls, the HJC snapped ties with the BJP, which went connected to triumph 47 seats and formed the government. The HJC was reduced to conscionable 2 MLAs — Kuldeep and his woman Renuka Bishnoi. After Kuldeep merged his enactment with the Congress successful 2016, his lad Bhavya was fielded from the Hisar Lok Sabha spot successful 2019, but helium mislaid adjacent his information deposit.

After a tussle with Hooda, Kuldeep near the enactment successful 2022 and joined the BJP. In the Adampur Assembly spot from which Kuldeep had to resign, the BJP fielded his lad Bhavya, which won it successful a bypoll with 16,000 votes.

In the existent Assembly polls, 2 different members of the Bhajan Lal’s household were besides successful the fray. Ex-deputy CM Chander Mohan, 58, won the Panchkula spot arsenic a Congress candidate, portion Bhajan Lal’s nephew Dura Ram mislaid from Fatehabad connected the BJP’s ticket.