Chandigarh: With six MLAs short of the number needed to form the next government, the BJP Friday was promised "unconditional support" by Haryana Lokhit Party leader Gopal Kanda, a controversial politician accused in 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, six MLAs met the party's working president J P Nadda.
The apparent BJP move to accept Kanda's support was slammed by the opposition Congress and BJP leader Uma Bharti, who recalled the row in which the politician was involved when as a minister in Haryana's Congress government in 2012.