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In the 2019 Assembly elections, Chautala defeated BJP’s Pawan Beniwal by a margin of 11,922 votes. (Photo: PTI)
Chautala, son of former Chief Minister O.P. Chautala, is seeking re-election from Ellenabad, facing Congress’ Bharat Singh Beniwal and BJP’s Amir Chand Talwara, both of whom have previously contested unsuccessfully from this key Sirsa district seat.
Abhay Singh Chautala, a senior leader of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), is trailing by over 14,000 votes to Congress’s Bharat Singh Beniwal in the last round of counting. Chautala held the Ellenabad Assembly constituency in Haryana since 2010. In the 2024 Haryana Assembly elections, held on October 5, Ellenabad recorded a 67% voter turnout, slightly higher than the state’s overall turnout of 65.65%.
Chautala, son of former Chief Minister OP Chautala, is seeking re-election from Ellenabad, facing Congress’ Bharat Singh Beniwal and BJP’s Amir Chand Talwara, both of whom have previously contested unsuccessfully from this key Sirsa district seat.
In recent elections, Chautala has maintained a strong hold on the constituency, benefiting from a three-way contest. In the 2021 by-poll, he secured 65,992 votes, defeating BJP’s Gobind Kanda (59,253 votes) and Congress’ Pawan Beniwal, who garnered only 20,904 votes. The by-poll was triggered by Chautala’s resignation in protest against the now-repealed farm laws.
In the 2019 Assembly elections, Chautala defeated BJP’s Pawan Beniwal by a margin of 11,922 votes. At that time, out of 1,81,021 eligible voters in the segment, 1,50,684 participated in the election.
