{"id":316076,"date":"2019-10-25T13:43:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316076"},"modified":"2019-10-25T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T13:43:54","slug":"neither-bjp-nor-congress-untouchable-jjps-dushyant-chautala-says-will-support-someone-strong-and-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/neither-bjp-nor-congress-untouchable-jjps-dushyant-chautala-says-will-support-someone-strong-and-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Neither BJP nor Congress Untouchable\u2019: JJP\u2019s Dushyant Chautala says will support someone strong and stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316077 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dushyant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/dushyant.jpg 580w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/dushyant-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/dushyant-495x420.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/>Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader Dushyant Chautala on Friday said that his party has yet to decide whom to support, keeping both Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress on the edge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe have decided that we will stand with somebody strong and stable,\u201d Chautala added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chautala further said, \u201cwe have not spoken to the BJP or Congress on the matter. We will support the party that is ready to work on the basis of the Common Minimum Program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking after a meeting of his party, the JJP chief said, that neither the BJP nor the Congress is untouchable for us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP won 40 seats in the 90-member Assembly in Haryana\u00a0and fell six short of the halfway mark needed to form the next government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress won 31 seats, Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) 10 and others registered 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today morning flew to New Delhi to meet party Working President JP Nadda at his residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP is seeking the support of independent candidates to stake claim to form the next government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Notably, both the BJP and the Congress are making efforts to win the support of the\u00a0Independents and other parties in order to get the number required to form the government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) leader Dushyant Chautala on Friday said that his party has yet to decide whom to support, keeping both Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress on the edge. \u201cWe have decided that we will stand with somebody strong and stable,\u201d Chautala added. Chautala further said, \u201cwe have not spoken to the BJP or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[9473,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316078,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316076\/revisions\/316078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}