Chandigarh: With six MLAs short of the number needed to form the next government, the BJP earlier on Friday was promised "unconditional support" by Haryana Lokhit Party leader Gopal Kanda, a controversial politician who faces a case of abetment to suicide.

Kanda told reporters that he and all independent candidates have "decided" to extend unconditional support to the Bharatiya Janata Party. In Delhi a BJP leader had earlier on Friday said, five independent MLAs met the party's working president J P Nadda.