"Our allies hug us in Punjab, but in Haryana, they are wrestling with us (against BJP), which is unethical," Sidhu said at an election rally at Dabwali in favour of BJP candidate Dev Kumar Sharma. Sidhu, who had been vocal against Akali Dal leadership when he was an MP from Amritsar, used the occasion to launch a veiled attack on them.
"They support a person who claims that he will take oath from jail...how can they (Akalis) support convicts who have been jailed," he said in an apparent reference to SAD fighting Haryana assembly polls in alliance with the INLD.
INLD president and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, who is out on bail on health grounds in a teachers' recruitment scam case, had a fortnight ago said he would take oath as the next CM from Tihar jail.
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal has campaigned for INLD in Haryana and even shared stage with Chautala in Jind on September 25. SAD president and deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal also began a hectic poll campaign from Sirsa to seek votes for the INLD-SAD candidates.
BJP, an erstwhile ally of the INLD, is for the first time in Haryana's history contesting on all the 90 assembly seats on its own.
Sidhu also targeted CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, claiming that he has taken the state backward and mocking at his claims of making 'Haryana No 1' in terms of development. Seeking votes for BJP to strengthen the hands of the Prime Minister, he said Narendra Modi will take the country forward.
While INLD has fielded 88 candidates, the remaining two seats - Ambala City and Kalanwali - are being fought by the SAD.
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