Senior BJP leader Birender Singh and former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala may not have crossed swords in the 2014 assembly polls, but Singh must be a relieved man today having avenged the defeat by proxy.
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.
While out on bail recently, Chautala had even aggressively campaigned for Dushyant from Uchana. However, Prem Lata defeated young Dushyant by a margin of 7,480 votes.
