Families united, parties different, says Dushyant
New Delhi, Oct. 29: The Chautala families are united, only parties are different, Haryana deputy chief minister and JJP leader Dushyant Chautala said on Tuesday, a day after his father Ajay Chautala met his estranged brother Abhay Chautala at a farmhouse.
Monday's amicable meeting between Ajay Chautala and Abhay Chautala triggered hopes of a festering family dispute that led to a vertical split in the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) last year coming to end.
Asked about the prospects of his Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) and the INLD coming together, Dushyant Chautala, without taking any names, said they should reconsider what they have done. “The families are united, only parties are different... And it is for them to consider who broke ties,” he said.
Dushyant Chautala launched the JJP in December 2018 after he, his younger brother
Digvijay Chautala and Ajay Chautala were expelled from the Abhay Ajay Chautalaled Chautala INLD. The JJP won 10 seats in the recently concluded Haryana Assembly polls and emerged as the kingmaker in the state which threw up a fractured mandate, with both the BJP and the Congress falling short of the majority mark in the 90-member House.
On the other hand, the INLD registered its worst performance in the polls, with the party bagging only one seat.
Ajay Chautala, who is serving a 10-year prison term in a teachers' recruitment scam along with his father Om Prakash Chautala and is out on a two-week furlough from Tihar Jail, termed the INLD’s decision to expel him and his sons “wrong”.