Naveen Jaihind is AAP CM face for Haryana

GURUGRAM: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Haryana state president Naveen Jaihind will be the party’s chief ministerial face in the state assembly elections slated for October 2019. The announcement was made by state executive committee member and party’s media in-charge Sudhir Yadav on Tuesday.

Yadav also ruled out the possibility of forging an alliance with the Congress.

“Pandit Naveen Jaihind will be the party’s chief ministerial face in the (state) elections. Our leaders have made it very clear that there will be no alliance with the Congress. We will only have an alliance with the people of Haryana,” Yadav said during a media interaction in Gurugram.

Jaihind, who hails from Rohtak and is married to chief of Delhi Commission for Women Swati Maliwal, could not be reached for a comment as he is travelling.

Reacting to the development, AAP state spokesperson Kuldeep Kadyan said, “There is no conflict within the party over Jaihind’s projection as the chief ministerial face. He has been associated with Arvind Kejriwal from the beginning of the India Against Corruption movement.

During the anti-corruption movement, he handled major states in north India. He has had a long working partnership with Kejriwal. They share a good rapport.”

Though party chief Arvind Kejriwal has announced that AAP will contest the Haryana assembly elections, the party is yet to make a formal announcement on the number of seats it plans to contest.