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Minister in BJP govt stirs the pot further, praises Kiran Choudhry as "capable of winning on her own"

Haryana Cabinet minister Ranjit Singh Chautala’s statement on Saturday praising Kiran Choudhry has further stirred the Haryana Congress’s pot, which has anyway been on a steady simmer since the party’s defeat in the Rajya Sabha polls last month.

“Kiran Choudhry is daughter-in-law of former chief minister Bansi Lal. She is from a renowned family and isn’t anyone’s slave,” said Ranjit Chautala, an Independent legislator who is aligned to the Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government. Further, he added, “She is a known leader and has won on her own.”

Chautala’s statement is seen as an attempt to woo Choudhry into the BJP at a time when she is engaged in a fierce battle for one-upmanship with the Hooda camp, which has been blaming her, along with rebel leader and Adampur MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi, for the defeat of party candidate Ajay Maken in the Rajya Sabha election. On Sunday, Bishnoi again met BJP chief J P Nadda and Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar — his second meeting in two weeks.

Sources said Ranjit Chautala played an important role in convincing Bishnoi to vote for the BJP-backed candidate Kartikeya Sharma in the June polls.

For years, Haryana’s politics was defined by the three Lals — Devi Lal, Bansi Lal and Bhajan Lal. While Chautala, son of Devi Lal, is himself part of the Cabinet, his nephew and deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala’s JJP is already an ally of the BJP. With former CM Bhajan Lal’s son Kuldeep Bishnoi already in talks to join the BJP, only Bansi Lal’s family had so far been out of the BJP camp. Sources said that by attempting to get Kiran Choudhry to switch sides, Chautala was trying to fill this key gap.

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/divided-haryana-congress-continues-to-be-haunted-by-invalid-rs-vote-8048967/


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