RSS man Khattar is Haryana CM
First Punjabi To Head State Govt
Haryana got its first BJP
chief minister on Tuesday after Manhohar Lal Khattar -a first-time MLA, a
non-Jat and a dedicated RSS pracharak -was chosen to lead the
government in Jatland. He is also the first Punjabi chief minister of
Haryana after the state was carved out of Punjab in 1966. The
Karnal MLA will take oath at Tau Devi Lal stadium in Panchkula on
October 26 where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief ministers of all
BJP-ruled states will be present.
Khattar, 60, is known as a master political strategist but has no experience of governance. This is one of his many similarities with Modi, who too had never fought an election until he was made Gujarat chief minister in 2001.
Khattar's name was en dorsed by Modi himself, but that didn't ensure a smooth ride at the BJP legislative party meeting at the UT guesthouse in Chandigarh.
At least five MLAs, including a woman legislator, said that the chief minister should be from south Haryana.
They wanted Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh to get the job. Sources said around half a dozen MLAs had met in Delhi on Monday in support of Singh.
At Tuesday's meeting, central leaders said Singh was ineligible as he was already Union minister. The MLAs then wanted the party to appoint state BJP chief Ram Bilas Sharma as chief minister but even that proposal was shot down. Then Sharma proposed Khattar's name, which was endorsed by Captain Ab himanyu, Om Prakash Dhankhar and Anil Vij -all of whom were chief ministerial aspirants.
Khattar, 60, is known as a master political strategist but has no experience of governance. This is one of his many similarities with Modi, who too had never fought an election until he was made Gujarat chief minister in 2001.
Khattar's name was en dorsed by Modi himself, but that didn't ensure a smooth ride at the BJP legislative party meeting at the UT guesthouse in Chandigarh.
At least five MLAs, including a woman legislator, said that the chief minister should be from south Haryana.
They wanted Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh to get the job. Sources said around half a dozen MLAs had met in Delhi on Monday in support of Singh.
At Tuesday's meeting, central leaders said Singh was ineligible as he was already Union minister. The MLAs then wanted the party to appoint state BJP chief Ram Bilas Sharma as chief minister but even that proposal was shot down. Then Sharma proposed Khattar's name, which was endorsed by Captain Ab himanyu, Om Prakash Dhankhar and Anil Vij -all of whom were chief ministerial aspirants.
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