Chandigarh: Haryana BJP president and Kurukshetra MP Nayab Singh Saini was on Friday sworn in as the new Haryana Chief Minister. Earlier, on a day of fast-paced political changes, outgoing Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday resigned from his post following a rift in the BJP-JJP alliance due to irreconcilable differences allegedly over seat-sharing talks for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
At a ceremony at the Raj Bhavan here, Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya administered the oath of office to Nayab Singh Saini, who is considered a low-profile OBC leader.
Earlier, after being elected as the unanimous leader of the BJP Legislature Party in the Haryana Assembly, Nayab Saini met Governor Bandaru Dattatreya and staked his claim to form the government.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Saini said that good governance will continue in Haryana under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The day also marks the end of alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Singh Chautala-led-JJP (Jannayak Janata Party).
Nayab Singh Saini thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for giving him this responsiblity. "We will work for the development of the state. We have asked the Speaker to conduct the floor test tomorrow at around 11 am, in the Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly). We have informed the Governor about the support of 48 MLAs," Saini told reporters.
Saini is the sitting MP from Kurukshetra parliamentary constituency. Assessing the current composition of the 90-member Haryana Assembly, the BJP has 41 MLAs, while the Congress has 30, the JJP 10, and there are seven independents. INLD (Indian National Lok Dal) and Haryana Lokhit Party have one MLA each in the Assembly.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won all 10 parliamentary seats while JJP, which had contested the elections in alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), could not put up a strong fight in seven seats it contested. Dushyant Singh Chautala, who is eager to tie up with the saffron party in the ensuing Lok Sabha polls, is said to be making further efforts to make it a reality by holding talks with the BJP top leadership in New Delhi.
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