Ajay Chautala says could rejoin INLD if OP Chautala takes step; Abhay responds

JJP chief Ajay Chautala has said he could rejoin the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) if its chief Om Prakash Chautala takes the initiative but his brother and INLD senior leader Abhay Chautala ruled out the reunion, saying there is no place for "traitors" in the party.

Asked by reporters in Charkhi Dadri on Monday if the JJP and the INLD could once again come on one platform, Ajay Chautala said, "It depends on (INLD chief OP) Chautala sahab. It is the job of elders to take the initiative." "Many people are trying in this regard but the initiative has to be taken by Chautala sahab," Ajay Chautala, the father of former Haryana deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala, said.

"We will go tomorrow if he calls us," he said, responding to a question on any possible initiative by his father OP Chautala, a former Haryana chief minister.

Ajay Chautala and Dushyant Chautala formed the JJP in December 2018 after a split in the INLD earlier that year following a feud in the Chautala family.

In 2019, the JJP extended support to the BJP after the saffron party fell short of the majority mark in the assembly elections. The BJP-JJP alliance ended last month.

On Tuesday, INLD senior leader Abhay Chautala hit out at Ajay Chautala, calling the JJP founders "traitors" who betrayed the INLD and OP Chautala.