Haryana BJP keeps up pressure, Delhi moves

However, Haryana BJP Legislature Party leader Krishan Pal Gujar claimed that ‘‘they (the police) were under instructions from Chautala to assault us.’’

‘‘We have apprised Deputy PM L.K. Advani and party president Venkaiah Naidu about the incident and requested them to permit us to get rid of Chautala. He is out to finish the BJP in the state. People will desert us if we remain mute onlookers while the Haryana government goes on inflicting sufferings on them.

Chautala is particularly cross with me because I have been exposing his misdeeds within and outside the Assembly. We hope the party high command would not disappoint us. It may take sometime to dump Chautala but it will surely act. Der ho sakti hai per andher nahin,’’ Gujar said.

Haryana BJP vice-president Kishan Singh Sangwan, MP from Sonipat, also alleged that police officials had acted on ‘‘specific instructions from Chautala. He is hostile towards BJP leaders who have been critical of his anti-people and anti-farmer policies.’’

Sangwan added that the BJP would launch a statewide agitation against the ‘‘atrocities and the reign of terror let loose by Chautala against his political opponents.’’ Chautala, he said, had a ‘‘sinister design to lower the image of the BJP.