After winning its debut seat in the recent Lok Sabha elections, the Chandrashekhar Azad-led Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) is looking to expand its political footprint across North India by contesting the coming Assembly polls. The first step in this direction came on Tuesday when Azad announced an alliance with the Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) for the Assembly polls in Haryana. Sources said the party will also field candidates in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Maharashtra. While J&K votes along with Haryana between September 18 and October 1, the schedules for the polls in Jharkhand and Maharashtra where Assembly terms end later this year are to be announced. In Haryana, sources said, the ASP would contest 20 seats, primarily in the Ambala-Palwal belt that has a sizeable Dalit population. The party also has organisational strength and some influence in this area due to the region’s proximity to Uttar Pradesh, where it started from. And in Jammu and Kashmir, sources said, the party is likely to field candidates from nine seats in the Jammu …