INLD to contest all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana: Abhay Chautala

The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) will contest all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, senior party leader Abhay Singh Chautala said on Thursday.

On the BJP-JJP alliance ending in the state, Chautala claimed they were still "hand in glove".

He said his party has the largest organisation in the state with five lakh new members joining it recently.

"We will contest all 10 seats," he told reporters.

As soon as the election schedule is announced, "we will hold a meeting of the party's core committee to decide which candidate has to be fielded from where".

Taking on the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), which was formed after a vertical split in the INLD, Chautala said, "Had the JJP separated from BJP, then it would not have issued a whip asking its MLAs to remain absent during the trust vote in the Assembly yesterday." "Rather, they would have asked them to remain present and vote against the government. The whip which they issued clearly shows that they wanted to help the BJP. They are still hand in glove," he added.

The Nayab Singh Saini-led BJP government in Haryana on Wednesday won a trust vote. The BJP named Saini as Haryana's new chief minister on Tuesday, hours after the surprise resignation of Manohar Lal Khattar from the post along with his cabinet ministers. Khattar led the BJP-JJP coalition government.