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Chandigarh: Amidst ongoing political crisis in Haryana, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has resigned from his post. The alliance of BJP and JJP is reportedly on the verge of breakpoint. Manohar Lal Khattar submitted his resignation to Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatrya. The resignation has come six months before the assembly elections.
On the split between BJP and JJP, Gurugram BJP MLA Sudhir Singla says, “As of now, there is no talk of breaking the alliance (with JJP). A meeting will be held today…Observers will come to the meeting and all the MLAs will express their views…”. When asked whether independent MLAs would be given a place in the cabinet, he says, “Yes, it may happen.”
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday called an emergency meeting of all party legislators along with seven Independent MLAs in the state capital.
Alliance partner in the BJP-led government, the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) is non-committal on pre-poll alliance for the 2024 parliamentary elections, the BJP has started looking at Independent legislators to keep its government intact, at least till the Assembly polls likely in October.
Senior BJP leaders admit privately since the JJP has been demanding a bigger share of 10 seats for Lok Sabha elections and the issue of seat sharing remained largely unresolved at a meeting between BJP President J.P. Nadda and JJP’s leader and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala last evening, “we have decided to go solo in the forthcoming parliamentary polls.”
Both of them met for about 45 minutes in New Delhi. According to sources, the pros and cons of fighting together were discussed at the meeting. However, the final approval has not been given yet.
Interacting with reporters in Sirsa after holding JJP’s coordination committee meeting, Dushyant on March 10 said the party is ready to contest all 10 Lok Sabha seats solo and in alliance too.
Dushyant said that they are focusing on two parliamentary seats — Hisar and Bhiwani-Mahendragarh — in alliance with the BJP.
Independent MLA from Haryana, Nayan Pal Rawat told the media ahead of the meeting called by the Chief Minister: “I met the Chief Minister yesterday. We have already extended our support to the Manohar Lal-led government. I got the impression that the process of breaking the alliance with JJP has already started.”
Amidst preparations by the BJP and the JJP separately to woo the electorate for the Lok Sabha polls, all independent legislators had previously met BJP in-charge for the state, Biplab Kumar Deb, on several occasions.
