LS polls: BJP to go it alone in Haryana, says Sarang

KARNAL: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would go it alone in Haryana in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, party’s co-incharge for parliamentary polls in the state, Vishwas Sarang, said.

Sarang, who was in Kurukshetra to attend a workshop of party workers from Kurukshetra, Karnal, Ambala and Sonepat Lok Sabha constituencies, said the decision about party candidates would be taken by the party’s central leadership after discussion with state leaders.

Exuding confidence that the BJP would win all the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, Sarang said the results of Jind assembly byelection had proved that opposition parties, especially the Congress, had lost ground in the state.

He, however, parried question on why the BJP had not taken action against Kurukshetra MP Raj Kumar Saini, who had formed a separate party.

Earlier, addressing party workers in the Kurukshetra University’s auditorium, chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar said

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share ‘Mann Ki Baat’ with 11 crore party workers in the country on February 28. BJP’S national president Amit Shah would hold a meeting of party workers at Hisar on February 25 and on March 2, a bike rally would be taken out in every assembly constituency of the state, he said.

Without taking any name, Khattar alleged that many Congress