It is due to Gaya Lal's infamous incident that this term became prominent in the political vocabulary of India.

Udai Bhan's grandfather Dharam Singh was also a noted politician and was elected as the Chairman of Hodal Municipal Corporation several times between 1927 and 1942.

[5] Bhan won the Hodal (reserved) seat as a Congress candidate in 2014[6] but lost in the last assembly election to the BJP's Jagdish Nayar with a very small margin of 3,387 votes.

[9] In April 2022 Udai Bhan was appointed as the new State President of Haryana unit of Indian National Congress.

[11] Udai Bhan's younger son Raj Gopal served as chairman, Municipal Council, Hodal, from 2016 to 2019.