HISAR: The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Narwana, Pirthi Singh ‘Nambardar’ (72), on Wednesday joined the newly formed Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) in Hisar. With this, the number of legislators supporting the JJP rose to four. Other MLAs who back the outfit are Anup Dhanak, Rajdeep Phogat and Naina Singh Chautala.Nambardar said he was influenced by the policies of former deputy PM Tau Devi Lal and, in politics, he had followed the “Jannayak”. “Ajay Singh Chautala and MP Dushyant Chautala are the only leaders who are following Jannayak’s policies,” he added.The MLA said he was now siding with Dushyant and would work for the JJP. He said that there was nothing left in the INLD and the JJP was taking every class together. Apart from the MLA, his supporters also joined the JJP. MP Dushyant Chautala welcomed Nambardar and his supoorters by garlanding them.MLA Dhanak, senior JJP leader Ramkumar Gautam, Brij Sharma, Rajendra Litani, party women’s wing state chief Sheela Bharyan, senior leader Umed Singh Lohan and other office-bearers also attended the meeting.Dushyant hit out at his MLA uncle and INLD leader Abhay Singh Chautala for calling him a traitor. “If a child is insignificant and unworthy, he will sit on the threshold and plead to enter the house after eviction; but, if he is brave and deserving, he will build his own house which is bigger than before. Then, how is he a traitor?” he said.Dushyant said the way people rejected the Congress in Jind byelections and the INLD’s existence was over too. “People are looking to JJP and considering it as a better option,” he said.In response to a question about the coalition in future, MP Chautala said “all the good people should come together to save the country”.

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