Chandigarh: Is the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) planning to ditch its ally, the Jannayak Janata Social gathering (JJP), in Haryana? BJP state president Om Parkash Dhankar has joined Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah to seemingly ship such cryptic messages to celebration leaders forward of the following yr’s state and normal elections.
On Saturday, Dhankar urged BJP employees to organize for retaining all the ten Lok Sabha seats in Haryana within the upcoming parliamentary elections, thereby triggering talks of the potential for the celebration going it alone within the polls.
Dhankar made this assertion at Hisar whereas addressing ‘Shakti Kendra Pramukhs Sammelan’ of 10 districts coming below Sirsa, Hisar, Kurukshetra, and Bhiwani Parliamentary constituencies.
Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Biplab Kumar Deb, the BJP in-charge for Haryana, have been current on the celebration’s occasion.
Chatting with media individuals on the sidelines of the Sammelan, Dhankar went a step additional to comment that even the JJP needs Dushyant Chautala to eliminate the phrase ‘deputy’ (an oblique reference of his place as deputy chief minister) from his identify.
In 2019, the BJP gained 40 out of 90 meeting seats and shaped a authorities in alliance with the JJP that gained 10 seats. Whereas the overall election is prone to happen in Might subsequent yr, the meeting election is due in October 2024.
This isn’t the primary time {that a} senior BJP chief has given hints of the celebration contesting alone, with Shah asserting at a rally in Gohana on 30 January that the Lotus (BJP’s image) would bloom on all the ten Haryana Lok Sabha seats in 2024.
Earlier, in polls for native our bodies held in June final yr, the BJP had dumped the JJP and had determined to go it alone. It cornered 22 posts of presidents of the overall 46 municipal committees and councils that went to polls on 19 June. The JJP managed solely three.
Contacted by The Print on his cellphone, Dhankar tried to minimize his assertion and stated each celebration prepares for all of the parliamentary and meeting seats.
Requested to touch upon his assertion that the JJP additionally needs Dushyant Chautala to shed the phrase ‘deputy’, he stated that the media has been penning this whereas reporting the conferences of the ruling ally.
However, deputy CM Dushyant Chautala asserted that his celebration was in alliance with the BJP and that it will proceed within the upcoming polls.
“Media has began speculating in regards to the parting methods of the BJP and the JJP inside months of the formation of the alliance in October 2019. Nonetheless, our alliance has labored very nicely all these years,” Chautala instructed ThePrint over his cellphone.
The Haryana deputy CM stated that there was nothing uncommon within the two allies making ready for all of the seats within the state as a result of the distribution of seats at all times occurs near the polls.
Requested to touch upon Dhankar’s ‘deputy’ comment, Dushyant stated that it could possibly be the “sentiments of some JJP employees, however this isn’t the stand of his celebration”.
“Our celebration is in alliance with the BJP in Haryana and we will likely be contesting the following yr’s polls collectively. What number of and which of the ten (Lok Sabha) seats our celebration contests, what number of and which is available in BJP’s share will likely be determined when the time comes,” the JJP president stated.
In the meantime, three former MLAs — Padam Singh Dahiya, Mularam Gurjar (JJP), and Bijendra Kadian (AAP) — have been among the many 56 political leaders who joined the Congress celebration on Sunday in presence of the Chief of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda.
Speaking to ThePrint on cellphone on Monday, Hooda stated that the folks have been fed up with the BJP-JJP authorities and added that extra leaders from different events would be a part of the Congress within the coming days.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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