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Jind bypoll: Kalayat MLA announces support to Surjewala

NEW DELHI: Independent MLA from Kalayat, Jai Prakash, on Friday extended his support to Congress candidate Randeep Singh Surjewala.

Jind bypoll: Kalayat MLA announces support to Surjewala

Jai Prakash meets Ahmed Patel in Delhi, announces support to Surjewala. Tribune photo



Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, January 18

Independent MLA from Kalayat, Jai Prakash, on Friday extended his support to Congress candidate Randeep Singh Surjewala.

Jai Prakash announced his support to Surjewala after meeting Congress veteran Ahmed Patel in Delhi today.  The Congress had on Wednesday announced that its chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala will be the party's candidate for the by-election to Haryana's Jind Assembly constituency.

After a round of meetings, chaired by senior Congress leader KC Venugopal and attended by top party leaders from Haryana, Rahul Gandhi took a final call on the nominee.

The Congress leaders feel Surjewala is the party's strongest candidate in the region, the sources said.

Surjewala had reportedly refused to contest but was asked by Gandhi himself to fight the January 28 bypoll, they said.

The tenure of the 90-member Haryana Assembly ends on November 2, 2019.

The party leaders felt that a strong candidate should be fielded as the Congress cannot afford to lose an election ahead of state assembly polls, the sources said.

The BJP had swept the recently-held municipal elections in the state.

The Election Commission had on December 31 announced that the bypoll to the Jind Assembly seat would be held on January 28 and the results will be out on January 31.

The filing of nominations began on January 3 and end on January 10.

Surjewala is a sitting MLA from Haryana's Kaithal.

The BJP's nominee for the seat is Krishan Middha, the son of late Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA Hari Chand Middha. The INLD is yet to announce its candidate.

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