Security personnel stand guard during the counting of votes for by-election in Jind on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2018. PTIThe Bharatiya Janata Party won the Jind bypoll in Haryana on Thursday with party candidate Krishan Middha defeating his nearest rival, Digvijay Singh Chautala of JJP, by over 12,000 votes. Jind Deputy Commissioner-cum-Returning Officer Amit Khatri rejected the allegation over the EVMs. The BJP wrested the seat from the main opposition Indian National Lok Dal, which was decimated in the by-election. The Congress, which had fielded its senior leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, an MLA from Kaithal, ended up at the third spot.

Source: The Telegraph January 31, 2019 10:52 UTC