BJP-Dushyant Chautala (JJP) Party Split? TV Reports Say Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar

BJP-Dushyant Chautala (JJP) Party Split? TV Reports Say Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar 

BJP-Dushyant Chautala (JJP) Party Split? TV Reports Say Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar 

Chandigarh : In a fast-paced political development that has left Haryana politics abuzz, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has resigned from the post hours before a split in the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), its ally in the state.

While coming out of the Governor house, Education minister Krishan Pal Gujjar said Khattar will take oath again. However, reliable party sources kept the suspense on claiming that Khattar could infact be replaced by Nayab Singh Saini and the latter could be the party candidate from Karnal Lok Sabha constituency. A BJP legislature party meeting is currently on to finalise the name for the post.


All Cabinet ministers have arrived at the Governor house to submit their resignations. The development followed  a major setback to Haryana Deputy Chief Minister and JJP leader Dushyant Chautala whose five MLAs skipped a meeting he had called in Delhi and are likely to join the BJP. The BJP-JJP alliance is learnt to have broken following differences over seat-sharing for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections.

The BJP workers and leaders were said to be in favour of going it alone in the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. The five JJP MLAs who are likely to switch over to alliance partner BJP are Jogi Ram Sihag, Ram Kumar Gautam, Ishwar Singh, Ramniwas and Devinder Babli. All the MLAs are likely to form a breakaway group and join the BJP.

There, however, is no immediate threat to the Haryana Government as it sailed through the no-confidence motion during the last Assembly session. Rules mandate a six-month gap for the next no-confidence motion to be brought in.

A new Cabinet is now likely to be sworn in and the members of the breakaway JJP faction and Independent MLAs are likely to be included. In the 90-member Haryana Vidhan Sabha, the BJP has 41 MLAs of its own while the JJP had 10 legislators