INLD, BJP try to dent each other’s base

BJP and INLD are going to dent each other’s vote bank in coming Haryana assembly election. Both parties have gone through electoral alliance in the past but now they are at daggars drawn with each other. The off-and-on relationship between the two parties broke off a few weeks ago and they are now ready with strategies to “expand” their respective bases and poach on the rival’s turf. INLD leader Ajay Chautala alleged that BJP uses its allies for its own benefit. “Our vote bank is committed and we are making good progress in urban areas,” he claimed.

Countering this, Vijay Goel, BJP’s incharge for Haryana said, “we are a national party and we broke the alliance for making our base in rural Haryana. Our Goan Chalo Abhiyana will show its impact in this election.” He claimed that in rural Haryana, landed famers have started listening to BJP.

Chautala said:“We will target the Hooda government on the worsening law and order situation. People are feeling insecure.

“Also, the party is keeping its options open in case of a hung House,” Chautala said, adding that his party had got “strong” candidates in urban areas.
Asked if the INLD could go with the BJP at the national level, Chautala said: “We have to support an anti-Congress front. There are umpteen possibilities.”

Only two days ago, INLD supremo Om Prakash Chautala had taken pot- shots at various parties, saying the BJP could not win a single seat in the state as its reins were in the hands of leaders who had no mass base. “We have always sided with the BJP to strengthen the hands of anti-Congress parties. The BJP took this as our weakness”.
He had termed the Haryana Janhit Congress as a “B-team of the Congress” and ruled out the possibility of a post-poll alliance with the it. Chautala did not rule the possibility of a post-poll alliance with the BSP.