In 2009, Singh, a prominent Jat leader who was then with the Congress, had lost to INLD President Chautala by a narrow margin of 621 votes from the Uchana Kalan constituency in Jind district.
Singh in August 2014 snapped his 42-year-old association with the Congress and joined BJP. The BJP made Birender's wife Prem Lata as party candidate from Uchana Kalan.
As Chautala could not re-contest this time owing to his sentencing in the JBT teacher scam by a Delhi court last year, his grandson and Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala entered the fray against Prem Lata.
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