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Regret standing with BJP during protest by farmers, says Dushyant Chautala

Former Deputy Chief Minister and Jannayak Janta Party leader Dushyant Chautala, contesting the upcoming Haryana Assembly election from his family bastion Uchana Kalan in Haryana’s Jind, speaks to The Hindu on a host of issues including the challenges before his party, his alliance with Azad Samaj Party and his learning from past experiences. These are challenging times for your party grappling with erosion of support base, and the workers and the MLAs quitting ahead of the election? How do you plan to deal with it? There are many instances in political history when a party has been through a rough phase. These ups and downs are part of a political journey. Every election is a challenge and the cadre that overcomes it forms the government. We will expand our support base, ...
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Haryana Assembly polls: Parties chase Dalits; voters chase papers

Gurdeep Lal flips through a small booklet issued to him in 2015 by the Haryana Building and Other Construction Workers Board, which lists 22 welfare schemes aimed at providing for every eventuality in life and also death. In the nine years that he has been enrolled with the programme, he laments, he has not been able to access any of these schemes.Mr. Lal, 39, belongs to the Baazigar community and runs a grocery store in Chapra village in Haryana’s Shahbad Assembly constituency. As a Scheduled Caste voter, he has emerged as a prime target for the major political parties in the State’s upcoming election.He runs his finger through the promises of financial support listed in the schemes: ₹51,000 for wedding function of girls; ₹3,000 to purchase a cycle; ₹3,500 to buy a sewing machine; and ₹15...