This tie-up won’t last: Abhay

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 3

The BJP and JJP have come together in Haryana for their selfish interests and the alliance will not last long, said lone INLD MLA and senior party senior leader Abhay Chautala here on Sunday.

“They came together for their selfish interests, which can not last long,” Abhay told mediapersons on the sidelines of his party’s state executive meeting here.

He said his nephew-led JJP and BJP joined hands after fiercely opposing each other in the recently held Assembly poll.

He said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar used to dub JJP’s Dushyant Chautala, now the Deputy Chief Minister, as “gappu” while the JJP too used to hit out at the BJP on various fronts.

“But now, they have joined hands for their own selfish interests and not for protecting people’s interests. Such alliances do not last long and the government will eventually fall,” he said.

He added the two allies were now fighting which departments should the other get when ministers would take oath and portfolios were allotted.

On the Congress winning 31 seats, Abhay said the party should have been decimated, but it got more seats because of division of votes.

“If you see its past five years, you will accept that it should have been routed. It had neither organisational structure in districts and booths nor any agenda. Its leaders fought among themselves for five years. They neither raised any voice inside or outside the Assembly,” he claimed.

He said on the contrary, it was the INLD which raised the people’s voice both inside the Vidhan Sabha and outside.

On the BJP, he said he had predicted that it would perform poorly. “Its vote share went down by 25 per cent from what it gained in the Lok Sabha poll (58 per cent) from Haryana,” he said.

On INLD’s poor performance in the poll, Abhay said they were taking feedback and suggestions from workers on this.

About upcoming party programmes, he said the party had always waged a battle so that Haryana got the SYL waters.

“My priority is the SYL. If need be, we will once again launch an agitation so that Haryana gets its due share,” he said.