Chandigarh : Indian National Lok Dal leader Abhay Chautala narrowly leads the race for Haryana’s Ellenabad Assembly constituency, with a lead of less than 4,000 votes from the ruling BJP’s Gobind Kanda. This is despite Mr Kanda’s candidacy being backed by ally JJP, which is headed by the INLD leader’s nephew, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala. The Congress’ Pawan Beniwal – who joined from the BJP after unsuccessfully contesting the 2019 election – is set to finish a distant third.

Chandigarh (Haryana) [India], November 2 (ANI): The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) won the Ellenabad Assembly seat in Haryana that went to bypolls on October 30.

Chandigarh : Indian National Lok Dal leader Abhay Chautala narrowly leads the race for Haryana’s Ellenabad Assembly constituency, with a lead of less than 4,000 votes from the ruling BJP’s Gobind Kanda. This is despite Mr Kanda’s candidacy being backed by ally JJP, which is headed by the INLD leader’s nephew, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala. The Congress’ Pawan Beniwal – who joined from the BJP after unsuccessfully contesting the 2019 election – is set to finish a distant third.

Chandigarh Oct 26 PTI With only a few days left for the Ellenabad bypolls in Haryana key parties are making last ditch effort to woo the voters with Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar holding his first election rally on Tuesday claiming all-round development in the state While the BJP has fielded Gobind Kanda as the party candidate from Ellenabad main opposition Congress has fielded Pawan Beniwal In the triangular contest they are up against Indian National Lok Dals senior leader Abhay Singh Chautala whose resignation in January over the farm laws issue had necessitated the bypolls to the rural constituency falling in Sirsa district Addressing an election meeting in the constituency Khattar without naming anyone said some people are trying to create fear among voters He said voting to a person of their choice is peoples democratic right And they must exercise their vote without any fear he said He said now Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala JJP chief Ajay Singh Chautala and Power Minister and Independent MLA Ranjit Singh Chautala are part of the BJP-led coalition government A big part of that Chautala family is with us he said He also said those people who stand with truth and are firm on principles taste victory While Abhay and his father O P Chautala have been campaigning in the constituency the former MLAs elder brother and JJP president Ajay Singh Chautala besides Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala sought votes for the BJP candidate Dushyant addressed a separate election meeting in Ellenabad while Ajay Singh Chautala who was accompanied by JJP state president Nishan Singh spoke at the election rally addressed by the chief minister Power Minister and Abhays uncle Ranjit Singh Chautala addressed the election meeting with the chief minister and sought votes for Kanda On the other hand Haryana Congress chief Kumari Selja has been aggressively campaigning for her party candidate Addressing an election meeting in Randhawa village in Nathusari Chopta in Sirsa district Khattar said his government has ensured all-round development of the state We had promised a transparent and corruption-free government and we delivered on what we said said Khattar He said recruitment was made on merit which is now sole criteria for getting jobs unlike favouritism that prevailed during the previous regime On the farmers issue Khattar said the government was working for their welfare and touched upon several initiatives and schemes in this regard In his address Ajay Chautala launched a scathing attack on Abhay Chautala saying his ego is responsible for the situation which INLD finds itself in today When the party bifurcated INLDs vote share was 27 per cent with 20 legislators which plunged to 08 per cent in the 2019 Assembly polls His ego created this situation said Ajay Making a reference to Sirsa district which was once considered a stronghold of the INLD Ajay said This stronghold is going to become a khandar ruin for them Addressing a separate election meeting Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala appealed the gathering to make Gobind victorious saying it will be his responsibility to ensure development of the constituency People of Ellenabad are giving a lot of support to the alliance candidate The alliance will win the seat comfortably It will be alliances win over bhai fear and ahankar pride said Dushyant in a veiled attack on Abhay while interacting with reporters later Addressing a poll meeting INLD chief and former CM O P Chautala appealed to voters to make Abhay victorious even as he hit out at the BJP-JJP government dubbing it as a failure on all fronts Abhay exuded confidence of his victory and said people of Ellenabad know that he has stood by them all these years In her election meeting in the constituency Congress leader Kumari Selja hit out at the BJP-led government saying it is not listening to farmers The bypolls will be held on October 30 and the counting will take place on November 2 Gobind Kanda brother of Haryana Lokhit Party chief and legislator Gopal Kanda had joined the BJP recently and has been fielded by the BJP-JJP combine Pawan Beniwal who had unsuccessfully contested the previous assembly poll against Abhay Chautala had recently switched over from the BJP to the Congress PTI SUN VSD RDK RDK