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Dushyant continues to remain defiant

CHANDIGARH: A day after Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) patriarch Om Prakash Chautala hinted at the expulsion of his grandson from the party on October 25, Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala continues to adopt a defiant posture.

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Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 19

A day after Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) patriarch Om Prakash Chautala hinted at the expulsion of his grandson from the party on October 25, Hisar MP Dushyant Chautala continues to adopt a defiant posture.

He has been suspended from the party and served a show-cause-notice in the wake of a feud with his uncle and Leader of the Opposition Abhay Singh Chautala. The fissures surfaced at INLD’s rally at Gohana on October 7 when Dushyant’s supporters created ruckus during Abhay’s speech.

“In an avalanche, a single flake of snow cannot be blamed. The thrust and force of each and every flake causes an avalanche,” Dushyant told The Tribune, referring to the developments at the Gohana rally.

On his next move in view of party’s disciplinary committee asked to submit a report by October 25, the MP said: “If the committee summons me, I will appear before it and clear my position.”

And what if the party expels him on October 25? “My father, Ajay Singh Chautala, has given 40 years to the party. And I have worked hard for the party for nine years — starting from a small-time worker campaigning in the Narwana Assembly constituency for my grandfather to campaigning for myself in Hisar,” he said, evading a direct reply.

Sources close to Dushyant say the MP does not intend to offer a written reply to the notice served on him on October 11.

In the notice, the party has accused Dushyant of indiscipline and hooliganism during birthday celebrations of Chaudhary Devi Lal and of “causing disaffection within the party and conspiring with forces inimical to the INLD by organising efforts to disrupt the biggest rally in the history of the state”.

“Dushyant has requested the party to provide him with recordings of the Gohana rally and sought 15 more days to reply. He is, however, yet to receive the notice,” the sources said.

Meanwhile, INLD working committee members, including MLAs, don’t know the names of members of the disciplinary committee.

Dushyant is aware that its chairman is Sher Singh Badshami, a former political adviser to Chautala during his term as the Chief Minister. But he, too, has no idea about the committee’s members.

“Such has been the discipline in our party that ever since its inception, need wasn’t felt to refer a matter to the disciplinary committee. This is for first time that a case has been referred to the committee. And that, too, not of an ordinary worker, but of a member of the Chautala clan,” said a senior party functionary.

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