Ruling BJP won the Jind bypoll in Haryana with party candidate Krishan Middha defeating his nearest rival, Digvijay Singh Chautala of Jannayak Janata Party, a breakaway outfit of INLD, by nearly 13,000 votes. The BJP wrested the seat from the main opposition Indian National Lok Dal, which was decimated in the by poll. The JPP had fielded 27 year old Digvijay Singh Chautala, the son of former Member of Parliament Ajay Singh Chautala and younger brother of Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala. The Congress, which had fielded its senior leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, sitting MLA from Kaithal, ended up at the third.