INLD splits\, Ajay Chautala to float new party

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INLD splits, Ajay Chautala to float new party

INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala’s younger son and Leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Assembly Abhay Singh Chautala (third from right) during a meeting in Chandigarh on November 17, 2018.

INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala’s younger son and Leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Assembly Abhay Singh Chautala (third from right) during a meeting in Chandigarh on November 17, 2018.   | Photo Credit: Akhilesh Kumar

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The INLD split on November 17 with former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala’s elder son Ajay Singh Chautala declaring he will set up a new party.

“I hand over the INLD and the spectacles (party symbol) to my younger brother as a gift,” Ajay Singh Chautala, who was recently expelled from the party, told supporters in Jind. The announcement ends the simmering power struggle in the Indian National Lok Dal.

Ajay Singh Chautala and his brother Abhay Singh Chautala held parallel meetings on November 17.

The elder brother had termed his event as a meeting of the party’s State executive, a move which the other faction said was illegal.

Mr. Abhay Singh Chautala held a party workers meeting in Chandigarh, where he hit out at his brother, saying those who staked claim over the party have themselves left.

Ajay Singh Chautala, who has been sentenced to 10 years in jail along with his father Om Prakash Chautala in a teachers recruitment scam, said the new party will hold a rally in Jind on December 9.

Ajay Singh Chautala is currently on a two-week parole.