'Aisa pehli baar hua’ was the Congress’s election jingle, as it talked about the Hooda government’s development initiatives. As it turned out, the massive deployment of men and machinery which was working for the last many months could not disseminate the message properly. Or it could be that the people, fed up with poor governance and rising corruption, were just not in a mood to listen to it
The Bhajan Lal clan too enters the assembly as an independent political formation, the HJC. It has won six seats and Bhajan Lal’s son Kuldeep Bishnoi who has worked hard at the new party has won from Adampur. His mother Jasma Devi though could not win against Sampat Singh from Nalwa. With both the Congress and the INLD eyeing its legislators, the HJC gains in importance. Much will depend on how the wily though infirm, Bhajan Lal plays his cards.