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The winners are from different parties

Hisar April 29. Eight elections since 1977, winners belonging to seven different parties and two candidates getting re-elected with different affiliations -- this in a nutshell is the history of Hisar Lok Sabha constituency.

Not only this two main contenders of the May 10 elections are those who have won from here twice earlier, but on both the occasions with different party affiliations.

Ruling INLD's Surender Singh Barwala, who is seeking re-election won the 1999 election as INLD nominee whereas in 1998 he won from here as a candidate of Haryana Lok Dal (HLD).

Barwala's key opponent former Union deputy minister Jai Parkash is this time contesting as a Congress nominee whereas in 1996 he had entered the Lok Sabha as a representative of the Bansi Lal-led Haryana Vikas Party (HVP), which has this time put up a former Haryana minister, Kanwal Singh.

Jai Parkash had entered the Lok Sabha in 1989 also winning from here as a candidate of the Janata Dal. He had unsuccessfully contested from here in 1991 when again his party was different -- Janta Party (JP).

Congress is the only party which had won the seat twice -- Narain Singh was the winner in 1991 while Birender Singh, a former Haryana Congress president, was the victorious candidate in 1984.

The seat was won by Inder Singh of Bhartiya Lok Dal (BLD) in 1977 and Mani Ram Godara of Jan Nayak Party (JNP) in 1980.

There are 16 candidates in fray this time -- which is double as compared with the 1999 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP has put up Radhawa Nand, a religious preacher, who had to be brought in as a last minute entrant after the party found that its original nominee Jai Bhagwan Godara was not registered as a voter -- a mandatory requirement for a contender.

The electioneering has picked up in the Hisar parliamentary constituency. Campaigning is feverish and fast for the late entrants into the fray, namely Jai Prakash (Congress) and the saffron-clad Radhawa Nand (BJP).

Their rivals Surender Singh Barwala (INLD) and Kanwal Singh (Haryana Vikas Party) have entered into the second round of campaigning in the constituency.

The Haryana Vikas Party and the BJP do not appear to be in a contest or winning position in the quadrangular fight in Hisar, a constituency which earlier included Sirsa and Bhiwani.

Not only this Bansi Lal, Bhajan Lal and Devi Lal, the three Lals of Haryana originally belonged to this district and it was only later on that Bansi Lal during his tenure carved out Bhiwani as a separate district and Devi Lal carved out the Sirsa district.

The real race is between two related and old horses of this constituency, Surender Singh Barwala (INLD) and Jai Prakash (Congress) both of whom have twice won this seat.

Jai Prakash is facing intra-party dissensions because HPCC chief Bhajan Lal and his supporters are not actively behind him but the anti-incumbency factor of the ruling INLD is favouring him this time. -- PTI

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