Alluding to the ally's poor performance in Lok Sabha elections, senior BJP leader from Haryana and party MLA, Anil Vij also said that there was no way it could give 45 seats to contest to its ally.
"Keeping in view the changed scenario after HJC's poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP cannot offer him the CM's post nor can we give 45 seats to HJC to contest," Vij said in Ambala.
Notably, Bishnoi this week had shot off a letter to BJP chief Amit Shah, in which he asserted that his party was firm on not negotiating on the original terms and conditions of the partnership and had hit out at the state saffron leaders for publicly airing their views against the tie-up.
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He had mentioned that the HJC-BJP alliance was entered in 2011 for Lok Sabha and for the state Assembly elections.
"In the LS polls, the BJP was to contest eight seats and HJC was to fight two seats. In the state assembly, both parties would contest 45 seats each and Bishnoi, leader of the alliance and HJC chief, would be chief minister for the two-and-a-half years and BJP nominee for the remaining period," Bishnoi had mentioned in the letter.
Meanwhile, Vij while commenting on the possibility of senior Congress leader Birender Singh joining the BJP ahead of the October assembly polls, said "when he joins he will get due respect in the party.