OPINION: How 'Tragedy King' Birender Singh's Return Brightens Up Things For Hooda's Congress In LS, Haryana Polls

Former Union minister Birender Singh with Congress leaders Mukul Wasnik and Bhupinder Hooda as he joined the Congress, in New Delhi on April 9, 2024. ( Image Source :PTI )

In the early 2000s, if you passed through the Grand Trunk Road stretch between Delhi and Haryana, you would not miss two things: the ubiquitous Pachranga pickle shops (where you also got heavenly murabbas) and walls plastered with the slogan, “Gali gali shahar shahar Chautala ki lahar chali”. The mascot of the Om Prakash Chautala-led Haryana government was, of course, Chautala’s father ‘Tau’ Devi Lal, India’s former deputy prime minister who passed away in