Former Deputy Chief Minister and Jannayak Janta Party person Dushyant Chautala, contesting the upcoming Haryana Assembly election from his household bastion Uchana Kalan successful Haryana’s Jind, speaks to The Hindu connected a big of issues including the challenges earlier his party, his confederation with Azad Samaj Party and his learning from past experiences.
These are challenging times for your enactment grappling with erosion of enactment base, and the workers and the MLAs quitting up of the election? How bash you program to woody with it?
There are galore instances successful governmental past erstwhile a enactment has been done a unsmooth phase. These ups and downs are portion of a governmental journey. Every predetermination is simply a situation and the cadre that overcomes it forms the government. We volition grow our enactment base, bring much radical to the party’s fold and bid them. We volition enactment harder and determination forward.
In a station connected your societal media level precocious you wrote saying that you were learning from your mistakes. What mistakes were you talking about?
I judge nary 1 tin beryllium perfect. So if determination are immoderate shortcomings beryllium it successful taking governmental decisions oregon the moving of the government, those are my mistakes. I deliberation determination were none, but if radical deliberation differently, I volition improve.
Can you beryllium much specific?
Like, I speech astir the sentiments of the masses and my supporters. When I spell among the people, everyone says that I should person resigned during the farmers’ agitation. I could not recognize their sentiments then, astir apt it was my mistake.
How bash you code the people’s resentment implicit the duplicate issues of the JJP’s confederation with the BJP and the basal your enactment took during the farmers’ agitation?
People are angry, but however agelong tin it beryllium similar this? It cannot spell connected forever. We had to fulfil the promises that we had made to the radical successful the election. Those promises could not beryllium fulfilled by sitting successful the Opposition. The monthly aged property pension successful Haryana has been accrued to ₹3,000. It was due to the fact that of our efforts. I judge radical volition recognize this. We gave 50% preservation to women successful panchayats and 8% preservation to the OBC (A). It became imaginable lone due to the fact that we were portion of the government. Sitting successful the Opposition, I could lone criticise and find fault, but not fulfil the promises.
But your party’s 2 biggest promises for 75% preservation for section younker successful backstage jobs and ₹5,100 monthly aged property pension are not yet fulfilled.
We cleared the instrumentality for 75% preservation successful backstage jobs successful the State Assembly. It is sub judice. So galore things of the Union authorities implicit the past 10 years are besides sub judice. Our instrumentality has not been struck down by the Supreme Court. We accrued the aged property pension from ₹2,000 to ₹3,000, being portion of the authorities led by the BJP. The BJP is successful powerfulness successful 18 States, but successful nary of those States, the pension is much than ₹1,000. Does my enactment person nary relation successful the pension hike? I had lone a 20% stock successful the government, but inactive achieved a lot. I deliberation it was bully enough.
Your enactment and your confederation spouse Azad Samaj Party cater to antithetic ballot banks, who don’t spell on unneurotic connected the ground. How bash you coordinate?
Our ballot slope is the same. We are targeting those beneath the property of 55 years. They marque astir 60% of the full electorate of the State. If we triumph implicit this 60% ballot bank, we tin signifier our ain government.
But some parties cater to antithetic castes.
We don’t deliberation similar this. It is not our mindset to speech astir caste politics. The people of some the parties is to empower the younker and we person a wide imaginativeness for them and the State.
What’s your instrumentality connected the Haryana Assembly poll. What relation bash you spot for your confederation aft the results?
I deliberation Haryana volition person a hung Assembly and our confederation volition person a precise important relation to play successful it. The occupation astatine manus is to get the maximum numbers. Once we person the numbers, we volition determine connected the aboriginal people of action.
Do you regret the post-poll confederation with the BJP aft the 2019 Assembly poll?
I don’t regret entering into an confederation with the BJP, but I regret lasting with them during the farmers’ agitation.
