SIRSA: The bypoll to the Ellenabad Meeting constituency in Haryana’s Sirsa district on Saturday is all set to witness a triangular contest, with opposition INLD’s Abhay Singh Chautala, whose resignation over the farm legal guidelines difficulty necessitated the election, eyeing one other win.
The bypoll shall be held on October 30 and the counting will happen on November 2.
Gobind Kanda, brother of Haryana Lokhit Social gathering chief and legislator Gopal Kanda, had joined the BJP lately and had been fielded by the BJP-JJP mix.
Pawan Beniwal, who had unsuccessfully contested the earlier meeting ballot towards Abhay Chautala, lately converted from the BJP to the Congress.
He’s within the fray as candidate of the principle opposition social gathering.
Abhay Chautala’s resignation in January over the farm legal guidelines difficulty had necessitated the bypolls to the agricultural constituency falling in Sirsa district.
Over 1.85 lakh voters which incorporates over 98,000 males and 86,000 girls, are eligible to forged their votes.
The electioneering for the Ellenabad Meeting seat bypoll ended on Wednesday night with the three central agriculture legal guidelines rising key difficulty within the election.
Though a complete of 19 candidates, principally independents are within the fray, Abhay Chautala, Beniwal and Gobind Kanda are being thought of as key candidates.
A serious a part of the Ellenabad Meeting constituency is rural with individuals principally counting on agriculture.
The elections for the Ellenabad Meeting seat have been held 14 instances through which solely the candidates of the social gathering led by late Devi Lal have been victorious.
Nevertheless, issues are a bit totally different this time as many members of the Chautala household are a part of the BJP-JJP coalition authorities.
Throughout the campaigning, Abhay Chautala’s elder brother and JJP chief Ajay Singh Chautala, the latter’s son and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala, focused the INLD chief holding him answerable for the social gathering’s decline.
Energy Minister Ranjit Singh Chautala, who’s an Unbiased MLA, additionally campaigned towards Abhay Chautala and in favour of the BJP candidate Gobind Kanda.
The Congress and BJP have focused Abhay Chautala, alleging that he had thrust the election on individuals of Ellenabad.
Tight safety preparations have been made for the bypolls with deployment of 30 firms of central safety drive, 5 firms of the Fast Motion Power and Haryana Police.
One firm contains round 120 personnel.
Abhay Chautala is eyeing a hat-trick as he shall be contesting his third bypoll.
Earlier, he had received the Rori Meeting bypoll in Sirsa district in 2000 and the 2010 bypoll from Ellenabad when INLD chief O P Chautala had vacated the seat as he determined to retain Uchana seat in Jind district, the opposite seat from which he had contested in 2009 and received.
Within the 2010 bypolls to Ellenabad, Abhay Chautala received the seat and retained it in 2014 too.
He once more received Ellenabad in 2019 meeting polls when he was the lone INLD MLA to enter the Meeting.
Successful the Saturday’s bypoll is essential for Abhay Chautala as a loss will deal a physique blow to the INLD, which in recent times is reeling below sequence of electoral setbacks.
Whereas the farmers’ agitation towards the central farm legal guidelines has emerged as the largest issue on this bypoll, some components like scarcity of irrigation services in few villages and waterlogging drawback in some segments are additionally more likely to play a job within the bypoll.
That is the second bypoll inside a 12 months which Haryana faces.
In November final 12 months, essential opposition Congress had retained the Baroda meeting seat after its candidate Indu Raj Narwal defeated BJP nominee and Olympian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt.
The Baroda seat in Sonipat district had fallen vacant after the demise of Congress MLA Sri Krishan Hooda.
