Chandigarh, Oct 25 (IANS) The lone Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator in the Haryana assembly, Akram Khan, Sunday extended his support to the Congress government in the state, far from the political battlefield of Uttar Pradesh, where BSP and the Congress do not see eye to eye.
Akram Khan said that he had been directed by BSP president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to do so to keep the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and others out of power in Haryana.

“I have extended support to the Congress government,” Akram Khan told IANS.

Khan met Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia and gave a letter extending his party’s support to the Congress.

The Congress in Haryana emerged as the single largest party in the state assembly elections Oct 13 with 40 seats in the 90-member assembly, falling six seats short of simple majority in the house.

Seven Independent candidates, however, Friday extended their support for the formation of the new government and shored up the Congress party.

With the BSP support, the Congress now has a comfortable support of 48 legislators in the house.