Ellenabad bypoll: More votes for Abhay Singh Chautala, but victory margin falls by half

While Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Singh Chautala had claimed that the outcome of the Ellenabad bypoll would be a referendum to the farmers’ protest and contested the entire election on this issue, the final results on Tuesday hinted that he had failed to convert the issue into votes. Despite the fact that he had resigned as an MLA to extend solidarity with the farmers protesting on the Delhi borders against the Centre’s three farm laws, his margin of victory fell from around 12,000 votes in the October 2019 assembly elections to 6,375 votes now.