Now, BJP’S Hry ally JJP opts out of Delhi elections
Says will support the saffron party candidates in Capital
CHANDIGARH:A day after the Shiromani Akali Dal, BJP’S another alliance partner, the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) led by Haaryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala, on Tuesday announced not to contest the assembly elections in Delhi, citing party symbol issue.
Dushyant told mediapersons here that his party would not field candidates as “symbol is a very important issue and the JJP is unwilling to fight on a new symbol at such a short notice.”
“For the Delhi Assembly elections, we had requested the Election Commission to give election symbol of ‘key’ or ‘slippers’, which were given to another party. In such a situation, JJP has decided not to contest the Delhi assembly elections,” Dushyant said.
He said fighting polls on any other symbol would have adversely impacted the party’s image.
He said the JJP would support BJP candidates in the Delhi elections.
Dushyant’s announcement comes a day after BJP’S another ally — the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) — said they will stay off from the Delhi polls.
Asked how could the JJP support the BJP in the Delhi polls as it had alliance with Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Lok Sabha elections earlier last year, Dushyant said that he lauded a few works such as improvement in schools and hospitals carried out by AAP, but there were many things which went against AAP like hardships faced by people living in outer Delhi areas, which were without basic amenities like power and water supply.
“We have also to fight the forces which are misleading the people on Citizens Amendment Act, thus weakening the Constitution,” he added.
BACKS KHATTAR OVER CID ROW
Regarding the ongoing tussle over the control of CID between chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and home minister Anil Vij, he said that the CM had powers to reallocate any department to himself. “However, I also do not believe that any officer can dare say no to supply any information to the minister concerned,”
Dushyant said.
‘INLD SHOULD WORRY ABOUT ITSELF’
On INLD leader Abhay Chautala’s statement that he saw JJP’S merger in the BJP in furure, the deputy CM said the INLD should worry about itself instead of speaking about JJP.
“The INLD leader should see how INLD had come to just one MLA from 19 in 2014 and how JJP has won 10 seats in its very first assembly elections,’’ he said.
LONDON: The three Punjab-origin men, who were stabbed to death in an attack in London, were killed in a row over not being paid for work, it has been claimed.
The victims of the stabbing near Seven Kings station in Ilford on Sunday night were identified as Harinder Kumar, 28, Narinder Singh, 26, and Baljit Singh, 34, the metro.co.uk said in a report. They were killed in a fight allegedly sparked by a dispute over money owed for construction work, the report added. Two Sikh men, aged 29 and 39, were arrested on suspicion of murder after the incident. Police said the fight between groups of Sikh men escalated into a fatal clash.
They had been embroiled in a fight at a wedding reception on Saturday night and the dispute may have been over unpaid building work in the area, according to the local media reports.
Scotland Yard’s specialist crime command launched a murder investigation and in its latest update said they do not believe the incident was gang or race related. “I do not believe this was gang or race-related. But, I believe there may have been an ongoing dispute between those involved. We believe the five men were involved in an altercation
the previous evening (Saturday) at Krystel Banqueting that spilled out onto the High Road,” detective chief inspector Paul Considine, who is leading the investigation, said.
The police are urging members