Abhay Chautala says no clouds hanging over INLD-BSP alliance

INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala rejected reports that his party's alliance with the BSP was under strain after the drubbing it received in the Jind bypoll, asserting that the two parties will jointly contest the coming polls.

"Has anyone said that the INLD-BSP alliance ended? Our alliance stands. We entered into an alliance (last year) to fight (the upcoming) Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha polls together and we will jointly contest these polls," he said.

"If there are any issues, we will sit together and discuss them," he said at a press conference after his party's executive committee meeting, which was chaired by Indian National Lok Dal's state unit chief Ashok Arora here.

Abhay Chautala, the younger son of INLD president and former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, said that "a section of media is trying to portray as if our alliance has broken. Has any BSP leader given a statement that this alliance has ended?"
Hitting out at his estranged elder brother Ajay Chautala, he said, "Some people hatched conspiracy to weaken our party. To make his son Dushyant Chautala MP (from Hisar), Ajay Singh Chautala conspired against his own party."