Ajay Chautala raps Minister Babli: ‘sangathan makes govt, not the other way around’

While Khattar had already made it clear that the state government would not “roll back” its decision on the e-tendering policy and rather the “policy was completely for development of villages”, the sarpanches have been vehemently opposing it. Opposition Congress, too, has been supporting sarpanches and opposing the e-tendering policy.

Earlier Babli had made a statement that “people who are running the party-cadres should run the party and let the government functionaries run the government”. Ajay Chautala on Tuesday was apparently reacting to Babli’s statement in Sirsa while responding to media queries about the ongoing standoff on e-tendering policy.

Ajay Chautala said, “Sangathan ke bina sarkaarein nahi chalti. Paagal ko sochna chahiye. Sangathan hi sarkaar banaati hai. Kabhi Sarkaron se Sangathan nahi bana.” (Governments do not function with [party] cadres. The ‘nut’ should understand this. It is the party cadres that form the governments; governments have never formed party cadres).

Ajay Chautala was chairing a party-workers meeting in Sirsa on Tuesday. “Talks are going on regarding e-tendering between the sarpanches and the state government,” he said, adding that “although the first round of talks remained inconclusive, let us wait for the second round. Not only us (JJP), even BJP MLAs want that this e-tendering policy should be given a rethink”.

A public snub for Babli and that too coming from the party’s national president is all set to further infuriate JJP MLAs who have been raising their voice against their party high command.

On several occasions in the past, Babli had minced no words showing his discontent against the functioning of the BJP-JJP coalition government in Haryana. JJP MLA from Narnaund, Ram Kumar Gautam, too, has been having strained relations with the party high command.