Chandigarh, March 18 (IANS) Former deputy prime minister Devi Lal's great-grandson, Dushyant Chautala, Tuesday entered full-time politics, filing his nomination as the INLD candidate for the Hisar Lok Sabha seat.
Dushyant, who turned 26 recently and became eligible for the Lok Sabha electoral fray, is the son of Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Ajay Chautala and grandson of INLD president and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala.
Ajay Chautala and Om Prakash Chautala are serving prison term in Delhi's Tihar jail after they were convicted by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Delhi January last year in the JBT teachers' recruitment scam.
Dushyant was accompanied by his uncle Abhay Chautala and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal when he went to file his nomination papers in Hisar town, 235 km from here.
Addressing a rally after filing his nomination papers, Dushyant said that the Congress needed to be wiped out as it had brought misery to the country. He alleged that his grand-father and father were in prison due to the manipulations done by Congress leaders.
The Hisar seat will witness an interesting contest now with INLD's Dushyant in the fray. He will contest against sitting Hisar MP and Haryana Janhit Congress president Kuldeep Bishnoi, the son of former chief minister Bhajan Lal.
Other main candidates in the fray are former Haryana finance minister Sampat Singh of the Congress and former IAS officer Y.S. Khayalia of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Sampat Singh was earlier a senior leader of the INLD for over three decades before he switched over to the Congress in 2009.
Elections to 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana are to be held April 10.
Dushyant's father Ajay Chautala had lost to Bishnoi in the by-election to the Hisar Lok Sabha seat October 2011 by a margin of just over 6,300 votes. The Congress candidate finished third in the bypoll and even lost his security deposit.
The 63rd match of IPL 15 was played between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants. Rajasthan
Since Gautam Gambhir became the head coach of the Indian team, Team India has suffered two clean
Suriya starrer 'Kanguva', being directed by Siruthai Siva, has been in the news since its announc
Kolkata Knight Riders have secured the number-1 position in the points table of IPL 2024. KKR ach
How did the India-China dispute affect business?
The deteriorating relationship between India and China is indicating that even though the two cou
Achuthanandan warming up to CPI-M again
Thiruvananthapuram, March 22 (IANS) Veteran CPI-M leader V.S. Achuthanandan appears to be rebui
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has released a research paper, which has
The dispute between Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir has been in discussion in the cricket world fo
There have been 3 big revelations in the last 24 hours in the Umesh Pal murder case of UP. First-
Corona: Tough steps have been taken, the entire lockdown will affect the livelihood- Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that strict stepsWest Bengal Chief Mini
