Bhajan Lal’s grandson marks family’s 16th win from Adampur

CHANDIGARH: Much has changed since Bhavya Bishnoi’s grandfather Bhajan Lal, grandmother Jasma Devi, father Kuldeep Bishnoi and mother Renuka Bishnoi served as legislators in Haryana. One constant remained — there’ll always be a member of ex-CM Bhajan Lal’s family in the assembly, reports Ajay Sura.
The 29-year-old BJP candidate Bhavya won the assembly bypoll in Adampur in Hisar, the family bastion, on Sunday. The bypoll was necessitated after his father Kuldeep resigned from the Vidhan Sabha in August to switch from Congress to BJP. Bhavya polled 67,492 votes and defeated Congress’s Jai Prakash by a margin of 15,740 votes. But his margin was almost half of that of his father’s 29,471-vote winning difference in the 2019 polls.
The Bhajan Lal family has been representing Adampur for the past more than five decades since 1968. It is the family’s 16th victory from Adampur and a first for BJP, whose number of MLAs reached 41 in the 90-member assembly. CM Manohar Lal Khattar and his entire ministry worked hard to ensure Bhavya’s victory after he was seen struggling against Congress’s Jai Prakash.
The result was a blow for AAP, which came fourth. Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann did roadshows, but it failed to convert promises like making power free into votes.