On Thursday, The counting of Jind Assembly by-election began at the city’s Arjun Stadium with the contest being between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Congress, the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and the newly launched Jannayak Janata Party (JJP). A clear election trend will start emerging by mid-day. The result for high stake Jind Assembly by-election will be announced today by evening.

Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar said that  "Randeep Singh Surjewala will win the Jind bypoll with a handsome margin. Once the results are out on Thursday, a loss will trigger an exodus of the ruling BJP MLAs because already resentment is brewing among several legislators and they themselves will bring down this anti-people regime,”

The voting for Jind by-elections took place on January 28 and recorded nearly 76 per cent voter turnout. In the 2014 Haryana Assembly polls, Jind constituency had registered 75.91 poll percentage. Nearly 170,000 people, including 80,556 women, were eligible to vote.

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The bypoll is considered a plebiscite on the Manohar Lal Khattar government and also a semi-final ahead of Lok Sabha elections. The bypoll, necessitated due to the death of INLD legislator Hari Chan Middha, has been dubbed as a prestige battle for the four major parties.

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