A day after Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala and his brother Digvijay Chautala refused to accept their expulsions from the INLD amid a family feud, their mother and Dabwali MLA Naina Chautala on Sunday attacked their detractors.
“Tau Devi Lal planted the tree which became INLD, he nurtured it all his life, but some 15-odd people have infested it like termites and are eating it,” she said while addressing a gathering of women supporters.
“I was shocked and hurt that accusations of indiscipline were levelled against my children. They were victimised because some supporters raised slogans in their favour (in an INLD rally). If someone raises slogans in your favour, I don't think that amounts to indiscipline. Do you think Dushyant and Digvijay are undisciplined?,” asked Naina.
She said her husband Ajay Chatuala had given 40 years to the Indian National Lok Dal.
Naina Chautala appealed to workers to realise the dreams of former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal and INLD president and former Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala.
Meanwhile, Ajay Chautala and Dushyant Chautala met party workers in Rewari and Delhi respectively while Digvijay met supporters in Bhiwani on Sunday.
Talking to reporters in Bhiwani, Digvijay Chautala ruled out the possibility of any mediation by Akali Dal patriarch and former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to arrest the feud within the INLD and Chautala family.
Digvijay made the remarks, when asked if Ajay Chautala was likely to meet Badal in coming days to seek his mediation to bridge the widening rift within the Chautala family.
A day before, Dushyant Chautala had refused to accept his expulsion and that of his brother Digvijay Chautala from the INLD, claiming that the party's national executive had not met and the sack order was not issued by party president Om Prakash Chautala.
On November 2, an INLD press release, quoting their grandfather Om Prakash Chautala had announced their expulsion following an inquiry which found them guilty of “indiscipline”. Both are the sons of Ajay Chautala, who is pitted against his younger brother Abhay Chautala in the power struggle.