The HJC party was founded by former Chief Minister of Haryana Bhajan Lal in 2007 after breaking away from Indian National Congress. It had a good hold in
Hisar and
Fatehabad district. In August 2009, the HJC joined hands with the
Bahujan Samaj Party. The alliance was however called off by the BSP before the Vidhan Sabha elections. In the
2009 Lok Sabha elections, the party won in
Hisar where Lal emerged as winner. In the
2009 Vidhan Sabha elections, the party contested 87 out of the 90 total seats and won six. But five of its MLA's defected to Indian National Congress to support the
Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led government. In September 2013,
Kuldeep Bishnoi declared his support for the BJP by backing the party's Prime Ministerial candidate,
Narendra Modi. In 2014, the party aligned itself with the BJP-led
National Democratic Alliance to fight the general election in 2014. The HJC won the Hisar by-election. However, in the
2014 general election, HJC chief Bishnoi lost to
Dushyant Chautala in the same parliamentary constituency. In August 2014, Bishnoi ended the alliance with the BJP and joined with the
Venod Sharma-led Haryana Jan Chetna Party for the
Assembly elections in Haryana. They won two seats. On 28 April 2016, the party merged with the Indian National Congress. Bishnoi and his wife were the only two MLAs of the party in Haryana
assembly . The merger, took place in the presence of Congress chief,
Sonia Gandhi and Vice President,
Rahul Gandhi. == See also ==