Calling the former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar a “senior and experienced leader”, BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh on Tuesday said that the party is set to give him a big responsibility in the coming time. The statement came hours after Khattar stepped down from the position of Haryana Chief Minister, and was succeeded by Nayab Singh Saini.
While speaking to the media persons, BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh said, “He is a senior leader and has experience in the party and organisation and has run a good government. Soon the party will give him a big responsibility...”
Manohar Lal Khattar resigned from the post of chief minister on Tuesday. Later in the day, Nayab Singh Saini took oath as the new Haryana CM in front of Governor Bandaru Dattatreya. Along with him, several leaders took oath as the Haryana cabinet ministers.
In addition to Saini, four BJP leaders Kanwar Pal Gujjar, Jai Parkash Dalal, Moolchand Sharma, and Banwari Lal sworn in as Haryana cabinet ministers. Also, one independent MLA Ranjit Singh was administered oath by Governor Bandaru Dattatreya.
Hours after the resignation of Manohar Lal Khattar and his cabinet on Tuesday, Nayab Singh Saini, the Lok Sabha MP from Haryana's Kurukshetra, met Governor Bandaru Dattatreya to stake claim to form the government in the state.
Saini is known to be a prominent OBC figure in the state. He is the BJP's Lok Sabha MP from Kurukshetra and was appointed the party's state president in October last year. He is also a close confidante of Khattar, whose second (consecutive) term ends this year.
The new Chief Minister of Haryana won the Kurukshetra constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by defeating Nirmal Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC) with more than 3.83 lakh votes.
In 2019the Lok Sabha elections, the party had won all 10 parliamentary seats, whereas, the JJP was not even able to put up a fight on the seven seats it contested.
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