Cong stalwarts from Hry will meet same fate as in Jind bypolls: Khattar

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Wednesday claimed that people have made up their mind to bring back the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and said the senior opposition leaders will meet the same fate as in the recently held Jind bypolls.

"The opposition party's existence is at stake and they are fighting for survival," Khattar said when asked if entry of Congress' stalwarts from different Lok Sabha seats in Haryana will make the going tough for the ruling BJP.

While former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is a sitting MLA, has entered the fray from Sonipat, Kumari Selja and state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar are fighting from Ambala and Sirsa, respectively.

Former six-time MLA Ajay Singh Yadav is contesting from Gurgaon and senior leader Avtar Singh Bhadana from Faridabad and another sitting MLA and senior leader Kuldeep Sharma from Karnal.

Talking about Jind bypolls, where Congress' senior leader Randeep Singh Surjewala lost finishing even behind the fledgling JJP candidate Digvijay Chautala, Khattar said, "In Jind too, they fielded their stalwart, you know what was the result."
On accusations of vendetta politics levelled by Hooda against the BJP government, he replied, "There is no question of pursuing vendetta politics."