Lok Sabha elections: AAP, JJP finalise Haryana alliance

CHANDIGARH: The much-talked about alliance between Haryana’s newly-formed outfit Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the

Lok Sabha

elections in Haryana was formally announced on Friday. As per the agreement between the two parties, the JJP will contest seven of 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana and the AAP would get the three remaining seats.


The JJP will support the AAP candidates in Chandigarh, Delhi and other states, according to the agreement between the two parties that was announced at a joint press conference in New Delhi.

JJP leader and Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala said coordination committee of the two parties would decide on the division of seats and the candidates in the next 72 hours.

Naming the alliance, ‘Aam-Jan,’ Chautala said the first word of AAP is Aam and that of JJP is Jan, so the alliance is ‘Aam-Jan.’ “Jhadu (AAP symbol broom) and chappal (JJP symbol) will eradicate dirt and thorns from Haryana politics and would create an educated, healthy, safe and well-employed Haryana. He said 56% of voters are young — in the age group of less than 45 — and Haryana is the youngest state.

The Hisar MP said the two parties had come together to defeat the Congress and the BJP and would lay the foundation of a young and new democracy. He also described Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal as his elder brother.

The coalition, claimed Chautala, is completely capable of defeating both the Congress and BJP in Haryana. “When JJP and INLD were united in the last parliamentary elections, INLD candidates had received around 25% votes and the AAP had received 5% votes. With both of us joining hands, we are now capable of defeating the BJP,” he added.

Representing AAP, Delhi minister and AAP Haryana incharge Gopal Rai said although JJP was set up just five months ago, in the Jind byelection, JJP and AAP had proved that their alliance is the only one capable of defeating BJP.

“Senior Congress leader and close Rahul aide

Randeep Surjewala

could barely save his deposit. Jind byelection had proved that youth in Haryana wants change in the politics at any cost and Dushyant Chautala is spearheading such change. Public wants to take Haryana to new frontiers holding the torch of this alliance,” Rai claimed.

AAP state president Naveen Jaihind said the BJP had poisoned Haryana with casteism and let the state burn. He too added that the Congress is incapable of uprooting the BJP from Haryana.