Analysis: Why did Dushyant Chautala align with BJP
Win-win deal: JJP leader Dushyant Chautala, BJP working president J.P. Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in Delhi on Friday. | Photo Credit: PTI
Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) leader Dushyant Chautala’s decision to ally with the BJP to shore up the latter’s numbers in the Haryana Assembly has evoked a mixed response, but neither is the event unprecedented nor without its own political strategy.
Criticism has been lodged at the doors of Mr. Chautala for seemingly going against the mandate of the Haryana elections, and allying with the BJP, and betraying the sentiment of the Jat community in doing so.
However, the move to ally with a party one opposed tooth and nail during the polls is hardly unprecendented, with Haryana itself seeing former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda cobble just such a majority in 2009.
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