Adampur assembly election results 2011:

Renuka Bishnoi 50276

Kulvir Singh 27607

Ram Singh Baswana 21811

In a boost to the ruling Congress after the drubbing in Hisar Lok Sabha seat, the party today broke a three-decade jinx winning the Ratia (SC) Assembly constituency in Fatehabad district and managed to get a razor-thin majority on its own in the Haryana Assembly. In the other by-election, Haryana Janhit Congress led by Kuldeep Bishnoi, who last month won the Hisar Lok Sabha seat, retained Adampur seat in the bypoll.

With today’s win in Ratia, Congress led by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has got a simple majority taking its tally to 46 members in the 90-member House. The Congress had won 40 seats on its own after the October 2009 Assembly polls and later on five MLAs of the HJC had joined the party taking its tally to 45 then. The party also enjoys support of independents besides lone BSP member in the House.

The break-up of the party position now is Congress (46), INLD (30), BJP (4), HJC (1), BSP (1), Shiromani Akali Dal (1) and Independents (7). Jarnail Singh of Congress defeated Sarfi Devi of main opposition Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) led by former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala, which lost its traditional stronghold Ratia which had fallen vacant due to death of Devi’s husband and INLD MLA, Gian Chand. Singh, who was an INLD MLA in 2000 before switching over to the Congress, polled 65,071 votes as against 52,368 polled by Sarfi Devi of INLD. Singh won the seat, which has sizeable presence of the Punjabi community, by a margin of 12,703 votes. Mahavir Prashad of the BJP ended at third position getting 18,142 votes. BJP and HJC had recently weaved an alliance, but for the saffron party the bypolls did not bring much cheer.

From Adampur too, INLD finished a poor third and Congress, which had been pushed to number three position in Hisar poll, made significant gains despite finishing at number two position in the assembly bypolls.

Renuka Bishnoi, wife of HJC President and Hisar MP, Kuldeep Bishnoi, won Adampur seat with a margin of 22,669 votes defeating her nearest rival and former MLA Kulbir Singh Beniwal of Congress.

Renuka polled 50,276 votes as against 27,607 polled by the Congress candidate and 21,811 by INLD’s Ram Singh Baswana, a retired Sessions Judge.

The bypolls for both seats were held on November 30. With the win in Ratia, Congress broke a nearly three decade-old-jinx as Neki Ram had won the seat for the party way back in 1982 after which the constituency had remained the opposition’s bastion, with INLD winning it on three previous occasions in a row.

INLD had even won the seat in 2005, when INLD had got just 9 seats out of a total of 90 it contested.

Ratia (SC) seat came into existence after the 1976 delimitation and it falls in Sirsa parliamentary constituency. Sirsa has traditionally been INLD’s stronghold.

After Congress won it in 1982, the seat has remained with INLD barring 1991 and 1996 when it was won by the late Bansi Lal-led Haryana Vikas Party, which later on merged with the Congress.

Gian Chand Odh of the INLD represented Ratia in the state Assembly and his death in September necessitated the bypolls. The party had fielded his widow Sarfi from the seat. So far, no woman has won from the Ratia reserved constituency. The by-election to Adampur seat was necessitated due to resignation of Kuldeep Bishnoi following his election to the Lok Sabha seat from Hisar. As many as 16 candidates including 10 Independents contested from Ratia constituency and 21 candidates including 13 Independents from Adampur.

Adampur, from where greenhorn in politics Renuka was contesting for the first time, has remained a citadel of former Haryana Chief Minister late Bhajan Lal and his family. Lal himself won the seat on eight occasions while his son Bishnoi won the seat in 2009.Lal’s wife Jasma Devi, too, had won the seat in 1987.

Jarnail Singh of the Congress has got a vote percentage of 45.15 per cent. The highest vote percentage of 61.59 per cent from Ratia was achieved by Atma Singh of INLD in 1987.

From Adampur, Renuka Bishnoi got a vote percentage of 48.06 per cent, with the highest share of 77.93 per cent being that of late Bhajan Lal in 2005 when the Congress registered a landslide victory in the state assembly polls.

In 2009, Kuldeep Bishnoi had got a vote percentage of 45.77 per cent and in 1987, Jasma Devi had got a vote share of 55.08 per cent from Adampur.

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