By-elections are, broadly speaking, not even footnotes in politics, expected to land in ruling party kitty or the local satrap, representative of nothing significant. But Anna Hazare's picking of Hissar Lok Sabha bypoll as his debut in 'referendum' politics has raised an alarm that he is looking to do a Jabalpur bypoll in Haryana. Congress lost Jabalpur bypoll in 1974, which became an inflection point for the anti-Congress movement under the late Jaiprakash Narain.