Key Points
The first two are the families of former chief ministers Bansi Lal and Bhajan Lal, which had been contesting the Lok Sabha elections continuously since 1996 and 1998 respectively but have no candidates in the fray this time..
Bhajan Lal, who started his career in electoral politics in 1968 by contesting the Vidhan Sabha elections from Adampur a seat his family has not lost since then fought his first parliamentary election from Faridabad in 1989 as a Congress candidate and defeated Khursheed Ahmad of the Janata Dal by over 1.31 lakh votes...
In the 2004 LS polls, Bhajan Lals son Kuldeep Bishnoi, as a Congress candidate, defeated Bansi Lals son Surender Singh of the Haryana Vikas Party in Bhiwani by a margin of over 24,000 votes..
In 2007, Bhajan Lal founded the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) and won the Hisar seat as his partys candidate in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls by defeating Sampat Singh of the INLD by nearly 7,000 votes...
Then in 1996, Bansi Lals son Surender Singh (HVP) defeated Jangbir Singh, this time a Congress candidate, in Bhiwani by a margin of 2.25 lakh votes...
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