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Gurugram: When Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and his predecessor, Manohar Lal Khattar, inaugurated the election office and launched the poll campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, for the Hisar parliamentary seat Thursday, Kuldeep Bishnoi was conspicuous by his absence...
In it, he asked people to vote for the BJP to strengthen Prime Minister Narendra Modis hand but at the same time, signalled his unhappiness at not getting the ticket for Hisar, which went instead to state minister Ranjit Singh Chautala...
The son of Bhajan Lal, a former chief minister who was known for his mastery of the art of defection he defected with his entire team of ministers and MLAs to the Congress from the Janata Party in 1980 Bishnoi himself was considered a chief ministerial prospect before the BJPs victory in the 2014 Haryana assembly elections..
Krishan Bishnoi, a BJP leader and executive committee member of the Bishnoi Sabha,a community association,in Hisar, sees nothing unusual in the party denying Kuldeep Bishnoi the ticket and not including him in the list of star campaigners for Rajasthan..
According to Krishan Bishnoi, although the BJP had appointed Kuldeep Bishnoi co-incharge for Rajasthan, the three Bishnoi candidates the BJP fielded in the state assembly elections Biharilal Bishnoi from Nokha, Pabba Ram Bishnoi from Phalodi and Krishan Kumar Bishnoi (now, a minister in the Rajasthan government) from Gudha Malani were not too happy with this...
