Badal and Chotala root for Congress

HOSHIARPUR/BHIWANI: Two villages — Badal in Haryana’s Bhiwani district and Chotala in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district — share the surnames of SAD patriarch Parkash Singh Badal and INLD chief Om Parkash Chautala.
But neither of these villages favoured SAD, BJP or INLD in 2009 Lok Sabha polls. BJP is in alliance with SAD in Punjab while INLD is going it alone in Haryana this time.
According to last Lok Sabha electoral rolls, Chotala had 911 voters.Here, the Congress received 334 votes followed by BJP’s 225. The third party in the order was the BSP with 56 votes. Like its present arrangement, the SAD had not fielded any candidate. The turnout was 69.05%.
Similarly Haryana’s Badal village had 1903 registered voters and had two booths — 47 and 48 — allocated to it in 2009.
At booth number 47, Congress received 419 votes while INLD got 327. At booth number 48, Congress got 112 votes and INLD received 28.