Gurugram: From saying it needs to contest two Lok Sabha seats in Haryana to then declaring that it could skip the final election — the Jannayak Janata Social gathering (JJP), an ally of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) till just lately, has made a collection of flip-flops in a span of two weeks.
After saying that it could take into account not fielding candidates for the Lok Sabha polls and as an alternative concentrate on the meeting elections slated for later this 12 months, the JJP declared that it will contest all 10 of the state’s Lok Sabha seats.
In opposition to this backdrop, social gathering supremo Ajay Singh Chautala hinted Wednesday that the JJP continues to be open to a revival of the alliance with the BJP sooner or later.
Whereas this transformation in fact has saved political circles abuzz, the Congress believes there’s a tacit understanding between the JJP and the BJP: JJP would contest individually to dent the Congress’s Jat vote financial institution.
“I have been saying this ever since the JJP ceased to be in the Haryana Cabinet that this party has a new alliance with the BJP now – vote cutter alliance. In fact, they never ended their alliance. They have only changed their roles. The BJP has assigned JJP the task of dividing anti-BJP votes,” former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda informed ThePrint Wednesday.
Reacting to such assaults by the Congress, Ajay Singh Chautala Wednesday remarked, “Khisiyani billi khamba noche (A cat unable to catch mice will scratch the pillar in frustration).”
“Every political party contests elections for victory. Let us come to the election field once, and we will tell people who has a tacit understanding with whom,” stated the JJP chief, who’s the daddy of former Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala.
With out ruling out the opportunity of a revival of the BJP-JJP alliance, Ajay Singh Chautala declared Rao Bahadur Singh because the social gathering’s candidate for the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seat.
He additionally stated that the JJP honoured the Dharma of the alliance with the BJP for four-and-a-half years with all honesty and that there isn’t any bitterness between the 2 events. “I can’t comment now whether our party will enter into an alliance with the BJP in the future. But I will say that in politics no possibility can ever be ruled out,” he informed reporters.
Earlier Tuesday, the JJP had introduced that its Political Affairs Committee (PAC) had determined to contest all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana.
This was adopted by Ajay Singh Chautala asking JJP cadres to organize to contest even the Chandigarh seat. As for Haryana, social gathering sources informed ThePrint that the JJP might area Ajay Singh Chautala’s spouse Naina, or youthful son Digvijay, from Hisar parliamentary constituency.
Nishan Singh, state president of the JJP, stated the social gathering would come out with an inventory of its candidates for the Lok Sabha polls inside the subsequent few days.
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‘JJP will get votes at INDIA bloc’s expense’
In line with political analyst Satish Tyagi, the JJP’s determination to contest all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana would solely find yourself denting the prospects of non-BJP events with out the JJP truly successful any seat.
“Like it was in 2019, the Lok Sabha election in Haryana is going to be a bipolar affair. Whatever votes JJP candidates get, will only be at the expense of the INDIA (Congress-AAP, in the case of Haryana).”
Citing the instance of 2019 when the Congress misplaced the Rohtak seat on account of the JJP, Tyagi added, “JJP candidate Pradeep Kumar Deswal got 21,211 votes and remained at fourth position after the BJP, the Congress and BSP candidates. Congress’s Deepender Hooda polled 5,66,342 votes and lost to Arvind Sharma (who polled 5,73,845 votes) of the BJP by a margin of 7,503 votes. It goes without saying that a large majority of Deswal’s 21,211 voters were Jats who could have voted for Hooda.”
The BJP, nevertheless, denied that the social gathering has any kind of secret understanding with the JJP after the 2 parted their methods.
“Every political party in a democracy takes its own decisions to contest or not contest an election. If the JJP has taken a decision to contest all 10 seats in Haryana, the party has the right to take that decision,” BJP’s nationwide common secretary O.P. Dhankar informed ThePrint Wednesday.
“The BJP is going to win 370 seats on account of the popularity of Modi ji and the party doesn’t need to have any tacit understanding with anyone,” he added.
The Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) led by Ajay’s brother Abhay Singh Chautala, in the meantime, stated that the JJP has misplaced its help amongst voters in Haryana and would solely find yourself inflicting slight injury to the Opposition by splitting anti-incumbency votes.
“Had JJP been of any worth now, BJP would have kept it as an alliance partner. After all, JJP was ready to remain in the alliance with just one seat. But BJP knew that JJP wouldn’t be able to add any votes to its kitty. Hence, the ruling party dropped JJP as a partner,” Jasbir Singh Jassa, state govt member of the INLD, informed ThePrint Wednesday.
Jassa added that there’s “huge resentment” in opposition to the JJP amongst its voters, notably farmers, due to the help it prolonged to “anti-farmer and anti-sportsperson actions of the BJP government”.
“Whatever little votes JJP gets in these elections will be from the farmers. And this will cut into the Opposition votes,” stated the INLD chief.
Nishan Singh, nevertheless, maintained that the JJP would contest the Lok Sabha polls with all its may and solely the outcomes will present how standard the social gathering and its chief Dushyant Chautala are among the many citizens.
“It is a fact that we didn’t end the alliance and BJP did it. We always wanted to contest Lok Sabha polls in alliance with BJP. But BJP wanted to contest all 10 seats. Now, we have also decided to contest all 10 seats,” he stated.
Singh added that it was flawed to imagine that the JJP doesn’t have a difficulty merely as a result of it was in alliance with the BJP for four-and-a-half years.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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