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`BJP not to have alliance with INLD in Haryana'

KURUKSHETRA, OCT. 25. The Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party will not have any poll alliance with the ruling INLD in the coming Assembly elections in the State.

A decision to this effect was taken at a State BJP core group meeting held in a remote Sunheri Khalsa village in Kurukshetra district yesterday.

Mr Niti Sen Bhatia, a prominent BJP leader of Panipat, has been authorised to convey the decision to the party high command, party General Secretary Vir Kumar Yadav told mediapersons after the over six hour-long meeting.

Talking to reporters, Mr Yadav categorically said that the State BJP would not have any truck with the INLD in the Assembly polls as the latter was an ``unfaithful and unreliable partner''.

``We were defeated in the Lok Sabha polls due to INLD chief and state Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala as we were supporting his Government from outside'', he said.

Answering a question, he said the change in the central party leadership will not affect this decision as it does not bring about any ideological change.

The BJP will not have any truck with any party in the Assembly elections, Mr Yadav said. It will go alone this time, too, like the Lok Sabha polls, he emphasised.

He said the election strategy and the list of probable candidates from all the 90 Assembly constituencies had been finalised.

A two-day cadre training will be organised on October 31 and November one in Kurukshetra to gear up the party leaders for the elections. The training will be followed by agitation and dharna on November one by the BJP Yuva Morcha.

The Haryana BJP will hold demonstrations and dharnas at all district headquarters on November 8 against the State Government and submit a memorandum to the Governor through the Deputy commissioners.

Mr Yadav said 40 party leaders will address the Mandal meetings of party activists from November 14 to 22 to brief them on the party's election manifesto.

Intensive electioneering will take place in December when 20 prominent BJP leaders from Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir will address at least 10 to 12 party meetings daily to mobilise the rank and file of the party and its supporters.

Among those who attended the meeting were former Union Minister of State for Home Affairs ID Swami, Mr Kishan Singh Sangwan, MP, Mr Gurdial Singh Saini, Vice President of Haryana BJP, Mr Vir Kumar Yadav, General Secretary, Mr Ram Chandra Bainda, former MP, Mr Dharambir Mirzapur, President of Haryana BJP Yuva Morcha, and Mr M L Sarwan, a former IAS officer and scheduled caste leader.

State BJP president Ganeshi Lal could not attend the meeting due to personal reasons. -UNI

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