Rohtak, September 3
The much-touted alliance of the BSP and the HJC led by Kuldeep Bishnoi was
formally broken by national general secretary of the BSP and in charge of party
affairs in Haryana Man Singh Manhera here today.
The two parties, which had been facing discontentment for the past few days,
had joined hands on June 18. The BSP has declared to go it alone in the Assembly
elections scheduled to be held on October 13.
This is the second political alliance that has failed to take off even before
the elections as the BJP had broken its pact with the INLD a couple of weeks
ago.
Seen as a shot in the arm for the ruling Congress, the breakup of the HJC-BSP
alliance was announced by Manhera at a press conference here today.
Blaming the HJC leaders for the breakup, Manhera alleged that HJC supremo
Kuldeep Bishnoi was interested more in sharing of tickets with the BJP than the
BSP, though an agreement had reached to share the 90 seats in the ratio of
50:40.
He claimed that the HJC leader had been pressurising the party to allocate at
least 30 seats to the BJP in the elections. Alleging that the BJP is a communal
party and it is against the ideals and principles of the BSP to go along with
such an organisation, he said BSP supremo Mayawati had given a nod to break the
alliance with the HJC.
Moreover, HJC leaders had not been taking any interest in the alliance
activities and keeping away from the meetings held in the recent past, he added.
He said the BSP would not enter into any alliance and contest the elections
independently.
He declared that the BSP would hold a state-level election rally in Jind on
September 20, which would be addressed by Mayawati.
However, it may be recalled that there had been alleged discontentment among
the party cadre of both the BSP and the HJC over the seat sharing after it was
announced that 50 seats would go to the HJC while the rest would be given to the
BSP. This announcement had led to resentment among the party leaders and workers
from both the sides as it was alleged that the distribution had not been done
properly and could result in a loss.
The BSP and the HJC had a 15.73 and 9.87 per cent vote share, respectively,
in the last Lok Sabha elections in the state.