Chandigarh: With the BJP repeatedly hinting that it could contest all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana alone in subsequent yr’s normal elections, its ally within the state, the Jannayak Janata Celebration (JJP), can also be upping the ante for the meeting polls scheduled for October 2024.
On Sunday, the JJP launched ‘Mission Dushyant 2024’ at its Nav Sankalp rally in Julana city of Jind district — a part of the Sonipat Lok Sabha constituency — projecting celebration chief and Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala as its CM candidate for subsequent yr’s state polls.
Celebration leaders led by Dushyant’s father and JJP nationwide president Ajay Singh Chautala introduced on the rally that they might “be sure that the important thing to open the lock of the Haryana authorities comes into the arms of the JJP”. The ‘key’ is the election image of the JJP.
“We are going to open the lock of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha in 2024. We will even guarantee our presence within the Lok Sabha by performing properly in subsequent yr’s polls,” Dushyant advised the gathering on the rally.
Underneath Mission Dushyant 2024, the JJP has set a goal of “rising vote share from 17 % (within the 2019 meeting polls) to 51 %” in subsequent yr’s state polls, and drawn up plans to carry rallies in all 10 Lok Sabha constituencies, Ajay Chautala advised the gathering.
The celebration additionally goals to extend its variety of MLAs from 10 (2019 meeting polls) to 46 within the 2024 meeting polls, he stated.
Aside from that, the celebration plans to have sales space employees — sales space yodhas (male) and sales space sakhis (females) for all polling cubicles in Haryana.
“Sar pe thandak, zubaan mein mithas, pairon mein raftar aur celebration ka prachar (a cool head, candy tongue, swift toes and marketing campaign for celebration) are the important thing to attaining Mission Dushyant 2024,” Dushyant stated at Sunday’s rally.
Chatting with ThePrint Monday, Nishan Singh, JJP’s Haryana president, stated celebration employees had been requested to right away start efforts to realize Mission Dushyant 2024.
Requested how the mission was potential with the JJP in alliance with the BJP in Haryana and Dushyant asserting final month that the partnership would proceed — the JJP at the moment holds 10 seats within the meeting, whereas the BJP holds 40 — Singh stated that “each celebration makes efforts to come back to energy, and the JJP’s mission was in that path solely”.
He added: “So far as the alliance with the BJP is anxious, it was clear from day one which the 2 events had entered right into a post-poll pact (in 2019) for 5 years to offer a secure authorities to the individuals. The alliance has performed exceedingly properly in that path.”
“Now, as soon as the alliance shall be finishing 5 years, leaders of the 2 events will sit and resolve whether or not to proceed the partnership and underneath what circumstances,” he additional stated.
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‘Intact and getting stronger’
The JJP’s Mission Dushyant 2024 comes amid rumours of rift between Haryana’s ruling alliance companions and public declarations by Union dwelling minister Amit Shah and different BJP leaders in regards to the celebration’s intent to contest on all 10 Lok Sabha seats. The BJP at the moment holds all of the seats.
In a rally in Haryana’s Sirsa on 19 June, Shah had appealed to individuals to make the “lotus” (BJP’s ballot image) bloom on all 10 seats within the state.
It was for the second time Shah had spoken on these traces. Earlier than this, Shah had in January this yr appealed to individuals to assist repeat the BJP’s victory on all 10 seats in Haryana in 2024.
A number of different BJP leaders, together with the celebration’s in-charge for Haryana, Biplab Kumar Deb, state BJP chief O.P. Dhankar, former Union minister Chaudhary Birender Singh and former minister Captain Abhimanyu, have additionally expressed views in opposition to continuation of the celebration’s alliance with the JJP.
In an interview with ThePrint final month, Dushyant Chautala had stated the BJP was getting ready to contest all 10 seats in subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha elections, and so was the JJP. On the similar time, he had asserted that the alliance with the BJP was “intact and getting stronger”.
“Previously three-and-a-half years, that is the one query that the media has requested me: ‘until when will the BJP-JJP alliance proceed?’ CM Manohar Lal Khattar and I’ve made it clear on a number of events that the alliance is undamaged, and solely getting stronger. We entered into the alliance with the goal to make Haryana a extra progressive state,” he had advised ThePrint.
In the meantime, speaking in regards to the JJP’s ‘Mission Dushyant’, Singh reiterated that celebration employees had been requested to win 46 seats — which is greater than half of Haryana meeting’s 90 seats — and had been given the roadmap to realize this by “sales space yodhas” and “sales space sakhis” and tasked with reaching out to individuals to assist the celebration.
(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)
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