Hooda calls BJP, INLD 'backstabbers'

Amid scrambling by opposition parties to churn out a suitable alliance, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today termed BJP and INLD as "backstabbers" saying the political alignment was not in the interest of people but "for their own vested interests".
The Chief Minister said that some political parties are trying to have political alliance for Assembly polls. "It is not for the benefit of the people, but for their own vested interests," he said.
"The BJP is undecided over the issue of having political alliance," he claimed.
Hooda attacked BJP over the issue of alliance.
First the BJP had joined hands with late Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal and later with late Chief Minister Bansi Lal in the state, but both broke apart, he said.

"Thereafter, the son of Bhajan Lal (late Chief Minister) opted for alliance," Hooda said.

The chief minister said he had high regards for former Prime Minister Charan Singh, who had told him that the BJP could never favour the farmers and labourers.
"These words still echo in my ears," Hooda said.
He was addressing Haryana 'Shakti Rally' here in Gohana.
The Congress' rally came in the wake of opposition Indian National Lok Dal's recent rally at Kurukshetra on November 1 and BJP's rally at Rewari last month.
While describing the youth as future custodian of the country, Hooda asked party in-charge of Haryana affairs, Shakeel Ahmad, to recommend giving 50 per cent tickets to the youth to enable them contest elections.

In Haryana, politics is on the boil in view of next year's Lok Sabha and Assembly polls. The situation about possible political alliance between INLD and other parties, including the BJP is still not clear.
However, the BJP has announced its alliance with the Haryana Janhit Congress (HJC) floated by Bhajan Lal's son Kuldeep Bishnoi.
Bishnoi was at the dais at Rewari rally of BJP, where the saffron party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addressed the gathering.
But the presence of BJP's senior leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi at an INLD's rally in Kurukshetra sent confusing signals among electorates on possibility of an alliance between the two parties.