The BJP’s alliance partner in Haryana Jan Nayak Janta Party (JJP) has decided not to contest the Delhi Assembly elections due to issues with the party’s election symbol.
Confirming the development, Haryana Deputy Chief Minister and JJP leader Dushyant Chautala said the symbol is an important issue and the party on such a short notice will not field its candidate on new symbol.
Dushyant told reporters here that the election symbols of “key”, “pair of slippers” and “cup and saucer”, on which his party candidates had fought polls earlier, were all reserved by some other outfits for the Delhi elections to be held on February 8.
“We won’t field candidates in Delhi polls, since symbol is a very important issue. We had requested the Election Commission to give key or slippers as symbol... these were given to another organisation. In such a situation, the JJP has decided not to contest,” the JJP tweeted.
