After Bhupender Yadav’s yatra, Rao Inderjit Singh’s show of strength in Jhajjar tomorrow

By making the event successful in terms of the presence of people, sources say, Rao Inderjit wants to show that he has a strong support base outside Ahirwal too. He has represented Gurgaon for five times.

However, Rao told The Indian Express: “This event is being held to pay tributes to the martyrs. There is no politics behind it.”

Earlier, open discontent between Rao and Bhupender Yadav, who is a native of a village in Gurgaon district, was observed in August when the latter had undertaken Jan Ashirwad Yatra covering several parts of Gurgaon, Rewari and Mahendragarh. In the camp of Rao Inderjit, the Jan Ashirwad Yatra by Yadav was seen as an attempt of the saffron party to project him as a parallel leader to Rao in the Ahirwal region. Rao Inderjit had distanced himself from all public meetings and rallies of Yadav’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra.

A supporter of Inderjit said, “The Union minister was not happy with the activities by the anti-Rao lobby in the area where he enjoys a strong support base.”

Later, the BJP had attempted a truce between Rao Inderjit and Bhupender Yadav which had come a day after Khattar’s remarks that Yadav could take up the leadership baton from senior BJP leaders in the state which had fuelled speculation of a major shake-up within the party’s state unit.

In 2018, a warm response to his rally in Jhajjar district had encouraged Rao Inderjit to hold more rallies in the National Capital Region (NCR). After the rally when he was asked if he still wanted to become the chief minister, Rao had stated, “… I will see if people press for the same. Earlier also, I wanted to be the chief minister. Last time [2014 Lok Sabha polls] people voted for me with a hope that Inderjit would become the chief minister.”