You want to support us,do it unconditionally: Hooda

He was replying to a question on the Congress stand on HJC leader Kuldeep Bishnoi’s statement that his party would like to be part of the new government to be formed.

The Chief Minister,who forced early elections in a gamble that failed,expressed confidence that the Congress would form the next government.

“We are going to form the government. The PCC President has already met the Governor and staked our claim to form the government. We have the unconditional support of 7independents. And constitutionally too we have emerged the single largest party,” he said.

In the 90-member Assembly in Haryana,the Congress has won 40 seats,six short of the majority,and has claimed the support of all the seven Independents. It had 67 seats in the dissolved Assembly.

Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) got 31 seats,while its ally Shiromani Akali Dal got one seat. Of the remaining 18 seats,Haryana Janhit Congress-BL,a new entrant in assembly polls,got six seats,BJP four,BSP one and independents seven.

Meanwhile,Haryana Congress chief Phool Chand Mullana after meeting Governor Jagannath Pahadia in Chandigarh said,”In my capacity as HPCC President,I presented the Congress claim before the Governor of being the single largest party and also having the support of the seven Independents,” he told reporters in Chandigarh after the meeting the Governor.

After meeting his six MLAs,Haryana Janhit Congress chief Kuldeep Bishnoi said,”at the first meeting of the MLAs (after the results were announced),we have decided not to sit in the Opposition. We will be part of the government to work for the people of Haryana.”

Bishnoi further said “we will take a call this evening (on the issue of whom to support)”.

He claimed that HJC have been receiving feelers from both Congress and Indian National Lok Dal.