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The BJP swept Haryana in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, winning all 10 seats in the state. In the past five years, the Congress has attempted to revive its base on the ground even as it has battled internal differences among its top leadership.
The “Dilli Chalo” movement by farmers in February to seek a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) may have been cut short at the Shambhu border between Punjab and Haryana where protesters continue to camp, but its repercussions are being felt by BJP leaders in the two poll-bound states.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will cover three states on Friday. His busy schedule begins with a public rally at 11.30 am in Nandurbar, Maharashtra, followed by rallies in Telangana at 3.15 pm in Mahabubnagar and at 5.30 pm in Hyderabad.
“Saari batein aapko batani zaroori nahin hain (It’s not necessary to tell you everything),” says former Haryana chief minister and Congress Legislature Party leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda when asked if more MLAs on the BJP side are in touch with him.
Senior Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader and ex-Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala Wednesday called Nayab Singh Saini “a weak Chief Minister” because of whom, he said, three Independent MLAs withdrew their support to the BJP government and aligned with the Congress. He also put the ball in Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s court, promising to support the Leader of Opposition (LoP) if he went for toppling the BJP government. In an interview with The Indian Express, Dushyant spoke on a range of issues related to the prevailing political crisis in the state. Excerpts:
Just over a fortnight to go for the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana, three Independent MLAs withdrew their support to the BJP government in the state and extended “outside” support to the Congress.
It is nearly evening and at the Siwani Anaj Mandi an animated Girdhar Lal Bansal is busy playing cards with five men from the village. He chides them for cheating and reshuffles the cards for the next game. But as the conversation shifts to his nephew Arvind Kejriwal, Bansal falls silent.
A two-time Congress MP from Haryana’s Kurukshetra, Naveen Jindal on Sunday pulled a surprise as he quit the Congress and moved to the BJP and was immediately fielded from the constituency by the ruling party.