BJP and JJP will form government together in Haryana, says Amit Shah

BJP and JJP will form government together in Haryana, says Amit Shah

BJP and JJP will form government together in Haryana, says Amit Shah

In major breakthrough in BJP's efforts to cobble together a majority in Haryana Assembly, the Jannayak Janata Party led by Dushyant Chautala, offered its support to the saffron party to form government in the state.

“BJP and JJP will form government together in Haryana,” BJP president Amit Shah said after his meeting with Dushyant in Delhi.

Shah said the two parties have clinched a deal and Dushyant will be made the deputy chief minister in the new government, which is set to take oath in a few days. Incumbent Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will head the new government, too.

The saffron party had engaged in hectic parleys with the JJP, which has 10 legislators, after the former's tally fell to 40, six short of the majority mark in the 90-member assembly. 

Earlier, Haryana Lokhit Party MLA Gopal Kanda's unconditional support to the saffron party to form government had triggered a political storm, given that he is an accused in two abetment-to-suicide cases

BJP, in the meantime, claimed that it had also the backing of most of the seven Independent MLAs and several of them had given their letters of support to Khattar during a meeting at the residence of the party's working president, J.P. Nadda, in Delhi.

Earlier, Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, along with other senior party leaders from the state, met Dushyant in Delhi. The PTI had quoted certain sources as saying that Shah had spoken to the young Chautala even before the results were out, following inputs that the party might not get a majority on its own.

Earlier in the morning, Dushyant had said he would extend support any party which agrees with his organisation's common minimum programme.

"No one is untouchable for us. We will support whichever party agrees to implement our agenda as part of a common minimum programme, " Chautala had said.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will be elected the BJP legislative party leader at a meeting in Chandigarh on Saturday and will then stake claim before the governor to form the government.

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