AAP MLAs’ meeting with Ajay triggers alliance speculation

Tribune News Service

Jind, January 17

A meeting between Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs from Delhi Surinder Singh ‘Commando’ and Sukhbir Dalal with Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) leader Ajay Singh Chautala ahead of the Jind bypoll has triggered speculation about a possible alliance between the two parties.

Though the two MLAs, who met Ajay on Tuesday, describe the meeting as personal, political meanings are being drawn because of the way Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has once praised Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala or the way the JJP leaders are appreciating Kejriwal’s works in Delhi during campaigning in Jind.

“I am not aware what transpired in the meeting because Ajay went to jail after the meeting. But yes, we do appreciate the way Kejriwal has transformed government schools and introduced mohalla clinics in Delhi,” said Dushyant Chautala.

Asked whether the AAP leaders had contacted him to offer their support during the Jind bypoll where his younger brother Digvijay Chautala is contesting, Dushyant said not yet.

In November last year, Kejriwal had described Dushyant as a leader with clean image and had hinted alliance with his the JJP.

During his campaign in Jind, Digvijay, too, has been praising development works of Kejriwal government in Delhi. Sources said the meeting was held to carry forward the talks held so far and a formal alliance between the two parties was expected soon.

Surinder Singh ‘Commando’ said that he as well as Dalal had personal relations with Ajay and had met him on Tuesday to enquire about his well being as he had a narrow escape recently when his car’s tyre came off near Narwana. Incidentally, both ‘Commando’ and Dalal hail from Jhajjar district.