POLL-LDALL HARYANA 4 LAST

Of the three senior INLD leaders who joined Congress
shortly before the assembly polls, only former Finance
Minister Sampat Singh won from Nalwa defeating former Chief
Minister Bhajan Lal's wife Jasma Devi.
Two other former INLD leaders -- Women's wing chief
Kailsho Saini (Ladwa) and former Lok Sabha MP Sushil Indora
Kalanwali (SC) -- lost to INLD and SAD nominees.
Former BJP MLA Ram Kumar Gautam, who came into limelight
after he criticised the saffron party's leadership for its
alliance with INLD, lost from Narnaund as a nominee of the
Congress, which he joined before the elections.
Buoyed by the Congress success in the May Lok Sabha polls
when the party retained nine of the 10 seats, the Hooda
government went in for assembly election seven months ahead of
schedule. PTI