Haryana Janhit Congress supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi on Thursday formally announced snapping three-year old ties with the Bharatiya Janta Party and announced an alliance with Former Congress leader Venod Sharma's Jan Chetna Party for ensuing assembly election in Haryana.
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Terming BJP 'a serial betrayer of allies', Bishnoi, who was addressing a press conference in Chandigarh, accused BJP of mistreating his party at every stage.
The BJP and HJC which had contested the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana in the ratio 8:2 had a pact of contesting the 2014 assembly polls on 45 seats each. Bishnoi was to be the chief minister for the first half of the term in case the alliance came to power.
However, the BJP after its excellent showing in the Lok Sabha polls, where it won seven of the eight seats it contested, did a U-turn on the agreed seat-sharing formula. The HJC’s poor showing in the Lok Sabha polls where it lost both the seats it contested also contributed to the cold vibes between the two allies. While Bishnoi tried to work out an acceptable seat-sharing arrangement, the BJP cold-shouldered him altogether.
Haryana BJP leaders, including state BJP president Ram Bilas Sharma, have been taking potshots at Bishnoi and the HJC’s political standing. BJP national president Amit Shah recently underlined the party’s line of thinking when he said at a rally in Mahendergarh that the BJP would go alone if the HJC did not agree on the Lok Sabha seat-sharing arrangement. This meant that the saffron party was not willing to give more than 18 seats to the HJC for the assembly polls. State BJP co-incharge Anil Jain too had mocked at Bishnoi’s outfit during a rally in Jind. The HJC chief was also not invited when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Kaithal recently.
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