Chandigarh: Amid the continued slugfest between the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) and its ally, the Jannayak Janata Get together (JJP), the latter Tuesday termed Union Residence Minister Amit Shah’s enchantment to voters to offer the BJP all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana as ‘daydreaming’.
On Sunday, Amit Shah appealed to voters at a public assembly in Sirsa — house turf of the JJP’s Chautala clan — to assist the BJP win all 10 Lok Sabha seats within the state within the normal election subsequent 12 months.
Requested about Shah’s enchantment in Bhiwani, JJP secretary normal Digvijay Chautala Tuesday termed it “hawa hawai daave”. Loosely translated, the time period means constructing castles within the air or daydreaming.
Amid hypothesis over whether or not the 2 alliance companions will contest the 2024 normal election collectively, this was the primary time a JJP chief, and a member of the Chautala household no much less, dismissed the BJP’s enchantment.
“For any occasion, claims to victory at this second is like constructing castles within the air. We’ve got to go among the many individuals. The Lok Sabha elections are nonetheless a protracted technique to go. We’ve got to win individuals’s belief. Individuals at the moment are trying to regional events,” Chautala mentioned.
Digvijay, the youthful brother of Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala, added, “Most MPs at present, as you’ve gotten seen, are lacking. They don’t even take care of their very own constituencies.”
Referring to his elder brother Dushyant and father Ajay Singh Chautala, Digvijay mentioned that the individuals of Hisar and Bhiwani, respectively, nonetheless bear in mind their tenures as MPs representing the area. “Individuals will make such people who work for them the heroes. That is why this declare that we’ll win 10 seats is nothing apart from constructing castles within the air. The JJP is strengthening itself with full power for the Lok Sabha elections.”
Whereas Digvijay’s elder brother Dushyant was MP from Hisar from 2014 to 2019, their father Ajay Singh Chautala represented the Bhiwani seat within the Decrease Home from 1999 to 2004. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, BJP’s Brijendra Singh defeated Dushyant to wrestle the Hisar seat, whereas the Bhiwani seat was retained by incumbent MP Dharambir Singh of the BJP.
Digvijay’s “lacking MPs” comment, due to this fact, is being seen as a jibe at BJP MLAs Brijendra Singh and Dharamvir Singh.
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‘Which alliance are you speaking about?’
It is usually essential to notice that Digvijay Chautala’s assertion got here a day after BJP’s in cost for Haryana, Biplab Kumar Deb, undermined the alliance with the JJP throughout an interplay with reporters in Bhiwani. Deb was in Charkhi Dadri Monday when he was requested about whether or not the BJP-JJP alliance will maintain till the final election subsequent 12 months.
“Kaun sa alliance bhai, sabhi dus seat toh humaari hai (Which alliance are you speaking about, brother? All ten seats are ours),” the previous Tripura CM mentioned.
Relations between the BJP and the JJP have been within the doldrums ever since January this 12 months when Amit Shah whereas addressing a rally in Gohana mentioned he was “assured that BJP’s lotus will bloom in each Lok Sabha seat” within the state.
In statements that adopted, Biplab Kumar Deb, Haryana BJP chief O.P. Dhankar and former state minister Captain Abhimanyu hinted that the BJP and JJP had joined arms to type a authorities and to not contest elections collectively.
In an interview with ThePrint earlier this month, Dushyant Chautala too mentioned that the JJP was getting ready to contest all 10 Lok Sabha seats, similar to the BJP, and that the difficulty of the alliance shall be taken up as elections method.
The BJP had gained all 10 seats in Haryana within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Nonetheless, within the meeting elections held 5 months later, the BJP fell in need of the bulk mark when it gained 40 of 90 seats. The occasion then needed to enter right into a post-poll alliance with the JJP, which gained 10 seats, to return to energy within the state with Manohar Lal Khattar as chief minister.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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