Dushyant Chautala will support Congress in Rajya Sabha elections, but laid a condition

Ahead of the Haryana Assembly elections, Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) leader Dushyant Chautala has indicated his closeness with the Congress. Chautala, a former BJP ally, said his party is ready to support the Congress in the Rajya Sabha elections. But, he laid a condition for the support. The former Haryana Deputy Chief Minister said that if the Congress makes any eminent person of the state, or a Commonwealth or Olympic gold medalist a candidate for the Upper House, then our party (Congress-JJP) will support him as a joint candidate. On any possibility of returning to the NDA by forging a pre-poll alliance with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said that his party has already suffered a lot by going with the saffron party, so there is no question of any kind of compromise. In March this year, hours after the BJP replaced Manohar Lal Khattar with Nayab Singh Saini as Haryana chief minister, Chautala signalled the end of the JJP-BJP alliance in the state, and expressed gratitude to the people for their faith and support in his party. The change came amid the collapse of the ruling BJP-JJP alliance in Haryana, though party leaders from both sides did not make any immediate comment at the time. Khattar and all 13 other members of the BJP-led council of ministers submitted their resignations to Governor Bandaru Dattatreya. In a post on X, Dushyant Chautala thanked the people of the state for giving him the opportunity to serve the state as Haryana deputy chief minister.