New Delhi: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s appeal to INLD to join NDA notwithstanding, BJP on Saturday said its alliance with Haryana Janhit Congress will continue and a call on joining hands with Om Prakash Chautala’s party will be taken by the leadership later.
“The alliance with Kuldeep Bishnoi’s HJC is intact and will continue. Badal is a senior leader and he was emphasising on the need for opposition unity when he said INLD should join hands with BJP in order to finish Congress. A united opposition is needed to achieve this,” BJP vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told PTI. Naqvi was present at the rally of various parties in Kurukshetra yesterday where Badal made the appeal for INLD and BJP to come together. HJC may have issues with INLD as the seats for which it wants to contest future elections may come down with another party from Haryana joining NDA.
However, HJC’s concerns are mainly related to the assembly polls and not forthcoming Lok Sabha elections. BJP has tried to bring INLD to NDA-fold several times in the past but its overtures failed the last time in the assembly polls in 2009 and the two parties had contested the elections separately. (PTI)
