Gurugram: A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party selected to drop it as an alliance accomplice and substitute Manohar Lal Khattar with Nayab Singh Saini as chief minister, the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) stays non-committal about its technique for the upcoming Parliamentary polls.
The get together led by ex-Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala earlier needed no less than two seats — Hisar and Bhiwani-Mahendragarh — in alliance with the BJP, however the latter wasn’t able to half with any of the ten seats it had received in 2019 for its ally.
“We leave the question of contesting Parliamentary polls to the wisdom of Ajay Singh Chautala. If he wants us to contest all 10 seats, he can pick any of us sitting on the dais or those sitting in the audience to contest. If he feels we should contest only on the seats we are strong on, we can contest those seats. If he decides that we should not contest Lok Sabha polls at all and concentrate on the assembly elections to be held later this year, we are okay with that too,” mentioned Dushyant Chautala throughout his speech on the get together’s Nav Sankalp Rally in Hisar Wednesday.
Speaking to ThePrint, Randhir Singh Jhanjhra, JJP’s workplace secretary, mentioned that although the ultimate resolution could be taken solely after deliberations on the get together degree, it was true {that a} part within the get together was of the view that the JJP ought to concentrate on meeting polls.
“It is a fact that regional parties don’t have much say during Parliamentary polls these days as people vote to form a government at the Centre. A section within the party is of the view that the party should concentrate on its Mission Dushyant 2024, its goal to see Dushyant Chautala as Haryana’s CM in 2024, and concentrate on the assembly polls due in October this year,” mentioned Jhanjhra.
On BJP breaking ties together with his get together, Dushyant Chautala mentioned the JJP had demanded two seats within the alliance because the get together thought it might win these seats simply. However, the BJP provided them Rohtak. “I had met the BJP leadership again and told them to increase old-age pension to Rs 5,100 and the JJP would support BJP candidates without demanding even a single seat,” Dushyant Chautala mentioned. (Increasing previous age pension from the current Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,100 monthly is one in every of JJP’s guarantees.)
During his speech in Hisar, Dushyant Chautala sought to dispel solutions that JJP was not contesting the polls with BJP to assist it divide opposition votes. He additionally pointed to a video clip doing that rounds that steered the identical.
“I am pained by the type of thinking people can have. Our party works on the life and ideals of Chaudhary Devi Lal. I remained in that government for four and a half years for the welfare of the state. They (BJP) kept us involved (as an alliance partner) and kept giving assurances till the last day. In five years, only one meeting of the NDA was held. Chaudhary Ajay Singh Chautala attended that meeting. But what did they do? Without taking the discussions to any logical conclusion, what they did is there for everyone to see,” Dushyant mentioned.
“Some people will say that the JJP didn’t go with the government now so that the BJP could benefit from it. You tell me who decides which party is going to win? It’s the people who decide and not the political parties,” he added.
Dushyant’s feedback made in Hisar coincided with former CM and Congress chief Bhupinder Singh Hooda reiterating an earlier assertion throughout a dialogue on the arrogance movement moved by CM Saini in Haryana Assembly, that the BJP and JJP had a brand new pact now — an alliance to divide the Opposition votes.
He pointed towards the whip issued by the JJP to its MLAs to abstain from voting within the confidence movement. The 4 JJP MLAs who skipped Chautala’s rally and had been sitting within the meeting left the House as soon as the arrogance movement was moved.
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‘BJP-JJP in a live-in relationship’
Explaining the explanations for snapping ties with the JJP, former CM Khattar had mentioned to media individuals Tuesday, “They were interested in contesting Lok Sabha polls on their own.”
Recent media experiences, nevertheless, highlighted a video that includes Madhya Pradesh minister Kailash Vijayvargiya of the BJP. In the video, he says that the BJP determined to sever ties with the JJP as a consequence of issues over the latter’s get together leaders tarnishing their status. He additionally claimed that he was in Haryana three days earlier than the get together ended its alliance with the JJP. Vijayvargiya was BJP’s in-charge for Haryana when the get together first got here to energy with full majority within the state in 2014.
Political analyst Hemant Atri, nevertheless, feels that the BJP and JJP’s relationship won’t change by a lot even after the tip of the alliance.
“If the alliance was a marriage between the two parties, what they are in today is a political live-in relationship. Neither BJP is uttering a word against JJP, nor is the latter saying anything against its former alliance partner. The very fact that the JJP didn’t ask its MLAs to vote with the Opposition against the confidence motion moved by Nayab Singh Saini and rather helped the motion by abstaining, proves that they are still with the BJP,” Atri mentioned.
He defined that for the BJP, the “support” of the JJP is required in 4 Jat-dominated constituencies of Hisar, Bhiwani- Mahendragarh, Rohtak and Sonipat in order that they’ll subject their candidates and divide Opposition votes to assist BJP win these seats.
Mahabir Jaglan, one other political analyst, doesn’t see any future for the JJP within the coming Parliamentary and meeting elections.
“The JJP remained with the government when farmers were sitting on Delhi borders for 378 days. They didn’t utter a word when the Haryana government was hurling tear gas shells and rubber bullets on farmers leading to the death of a young farmer. They didn’t speak when women wrestlers from Haryana cried for support against their sexual harassment by a BJP MP. Now, they don’t have a reason why people of the state should support them,” Jaglan added.
(Edited by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri)
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