CHANDIGARH: All eyes were focused on Darba Kalan assembly constituency in Sirsa district in Haryana which went to polls Saturday and decided the political future of Om Prakash Chautala, the former state chief minister and the elder son of Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal. Chautala made a clean sweep and won by 45,000 votes.
After the countermanding of the Meham by election, the Darba Kalan assembly poll, which was conducted amidst unprecedented security cover, test for Chautala.
An electorate of 10 6 thousand exercised their franchise to elect from the nine contestants.
Chautala president of the Haryana unit of the Janata Dal had to step down as chief minister as a fall out of the violence in Meham.
But the by election there was countermanded following the killing of an independent candidate Amir Singh.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 1, 1990
