Balraj Kundu, the head of the Haryana Jan Sevak Party, confronted Sri Anand Singh Dangi, a former MLA in Haryana, for beating him and his assistant. The purported incident came in a burning election season in Meham.
In a video, Kundu narrated the episode asserting that Dangi attacked him physically. “Anand Singh Dangi has got so perturbed with this thing and he found it dreadful to wait for one woman in a crowded area so he himself arrived at booth number 134 at the Madina bus stand to see that all is well.
He [Dangi] was on me and my clothes were ripped and he pushed me,” Kundu alleged, looking at his personal assistant and further added, “This is the situation of my assistant.”
Kundu said that Dangi was frustrated because the election was not in his favor. “It is the apprehension of his defeat which is scaring. Today, he is thinking off once again to carry out another ‘Meham Kaand’ so I want all the people from my constituency request you that you do not provoke me” …“I appeal to all the people of my constituency to maintain peace and not fall for his provocations”.
Meham Kaand is the name given to a riotous and contentious political episode which came about in 1990 within the boundaries of Meham during a by-election. The by-election, which saw Anand Singh Dangi contest against Om Prakash Chautala, who was chief minister at that time and son of Devi Lal, was marred by violence, rigging, and brawls across adversary voters that turned out to be all well known. These resulting calamities had led to chaos with a number of lives lost, and grave accusations against Chautala’s government including electoral malpractice and state apparatus abuse, communications alleged the grabbing of polling stations or booths by partisans of the Chief Minister. It was a disgrace for Haryana’s electoral history as this would marked one of the cases of political banditry.
Congress politician and four-time MP Anand Singh Dangi has transferred the electoral baton to his son Balram Dangi. Balram’s opponents in this endeavor are more influential than himself: among them Kundu, author of the Haryana Jan Sevak Party, which he founded after leaving the BJP. In the contest are also Shamsher Singh Kharkara’s wife,. Radical BJP leader Radha Ahlawat and former Indian kabaddy team captain Deepak Hooda of BJP.
