2024 Haryana Assembly poll: Hooda to file defamation case against Abhay Chautala

Former CM and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday announced that he will file a defamation case against Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) national president Abhay Singh Chautala for making “false” allegations against him.

Chautala recently said that Hooda struck a deal with Union Home Minister Amit Shah to ensure the Congress lost the 2024 state Assembly election. While addressing a political meeting few days ago, he said that, following a raid on builders before the polls, which included Parsvnath, Hooda went to meet Shah to avoid action against him. He claimed that Parsavnath was a partner of Hooda. He added that on Shah’s orders, Hooda made Rahul Gandhi agree to give tickets to all sitting Congress MLAs despite survey reports against 17 of them.

Chautala also alleged that Hooda told Gandhi that if the announcement had not been made on sitting MLAs, they could defect.

However, during a media interaction on Thursday, Hooda strongly dismissed the allegations. He said his lawyers would soon send a notice to Chautala and would file both criminal and civil cases.

The former CM said that Chautala had made two false claims: one regarding a meeting with Amit Shah and the other concerning a partnership in a private company. He clarified that he had neither met Amit Shah nor had any connection with that company (Parsvnath).