Taking dynastic politics a step ahead, Indian National lok Dal (INlD) on Friday fielded Dushyant Chautala, grandson of INlD chief Om Prakash Chautala from Hisar parliamentary constituency.
Besides, the party also announced the list of nine other candidates from other lok Sabha constituencies for the general elections. Senior leader of INlD and MlA son of INlD chief Om Prakash Chautala, Abhay Chautala and State president Ashok Arora, released the list of candidates. Besides Dushyant, the other nine candidates are Jaswinder Singh Sandhu from Karnal, former MlA Zakir Hussain from Gurgaon, sitting MlA Rao Bahadur Singh from Bhiwani-Mahendergarh and another MlA Charanjeet Singh from Sirsa (Reserve).
INlD chose former Minister Balbir Singh Saini from Kurukshetra, ex-MlA and INlD national secretary Padam Dahiya from Sonepat, INlD State general secretary and party spokesman Ashok Sherwal’s wife Dr Kusum Bala Sherwal from Ambala (R), Shamsher Singh Kharkada from Rohtak and Advocate and former MP RK Ananad from Faridabad parliamentary constituencies.
The 26-year-old, youngest contender in this parliamentary elections, Dushyant Chautala is the eldest son of party secretary general Ajay Singh Chautala, who is behind bars along with his father Om Prakash Chautala for JBT scam case. He is also representing the fourth generation of Devi lal’s family who is entering in to active politics at national level. Dushyant is also national senior vice-president of Indian Table Tennis Federation. For the last more than one year he is engaged in party activities and extending party policies through public meetings and social media.
His uncle Abhay Chautala claimed that party had triedto approach each section of society by giving adequate representation, including youth, women, SCs, OBCs, Punjabi and minority communities. A maximum of three tickets had been given to Punjabi community while SCs and backwards like Saini and Yadav had been given two tickets each, added and Ashok Arora, State president.