Chandigarh:The Jannayak Janta Party on Sunday said that it has formed a coordination committee for discussions with the NDA leadership in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Both the BJP and JJP, allies in Haryana, have in recent months said they are preparing to contest all the 10 Lok Sabha seats and have remained non-committal whether they will fight these polls jointly.
When asked what has been decided about the Lok Sabha polls, Deputy Chief Minister and Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader Dushyant Chautala said that a committee has been formed by party chief Dr Ajay Singh Chautala for discussions with the NDA leadership. "After discussions within a week, the committee will give its report to the PAC (JJP's Political Affairs Committee). After this, the PAC will take a decision," he said.
Asked for how many Lok Sabha seats there could be an arrangement between the two allies, Dushyant said a "decision will be taken once discussions are held". He was speaking to reporters in Karnal on the sidelines of his party's national executive meeting. Earlier, at a meeting of the Haryana BJP's state election committee which was held in Delhi on Thursday in connection with the Lok Sabha polls, many leaders asserted that the party's performance of the 2019 polls will be repeated and "lotus will bloom on all ten seats".
The BJP had won 10 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 before it entered into a post-poll tie-up with the JJP after the 2019 Vidhan Sabha election after the saffron party fell of achieving majority on its own in Haryana. When asked that BJP leader Prem Lata, the wife of former Union Minister Birender Singh, gives statements in the media that the saffron party should snap tie-up with the JJP, Dushyant Chautala quipped, "For the last four-and-a- half years they have been giving such statements. They had even talked of leaving their party (if the BJP does not snap ties with the JJP)...it seems they are in a state of confusion."