Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar resigned on Tuesday, days before Lok Sabha elections:
Big news! Manohar Lal Khattar has quit, and Nayab Singh Saini is all set to take over as the new chief minister of Haryana. Saini will officially become the CM at 5pm on March 12th
Manohar Lal Khattar quit being the chief minister of Haryana on Tuesday. This happened because there were problems between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), who work together. They had some issues before the Lok Sabha elections. A spokesperson for the Haryana government said that Khattar gave his resignation letter and his team's resignation to the Haryana governor .
New leader Nayab Singh Saini is stepping up to be Haryana's chief minister, taking over from ManoharLal Khattar. He's set to be sworn in at 5 pm on Tuesday.
Things got rocky between the BJP and deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala's JJP because they couldn't agree on how to share seats for the Lok Sabha elections. In 2019, the BJP won all 10 Lok Sabha
seats in Haryana
In the lead-up to both the Lok Sabha and state assembly elections, Nayab Singh Saini, the president of BJP's Haryana unit and MP from Kurukshetra, has been named as the new Chief Minister of Haryana, taking over from Manohar Lal Khattar. Khattar resigned earlier today along with his cabinet ministers, causing the alliance with Dushyant Chautala-led Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) to crumble.
Saini, aged 54 and hailing from the OBC community, will officially assume the role of CM in a ceremony at 5 pm today. Following a meeting of the BJP's legislative party attended by Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda and National General Secretary Tarun Chugh, Saini was chosen as the successor.
Reports suggested that the JJP was dissatisfied with the seat allocation offered by the BJP for the upcoming elections. The BJP was reportedly willing to offer only one seat while the JJP desired two. The BJP and JJP were previously part of the ruling alliance in the state, comprising 14 cabinet ministers including Manohar Lal Khattar, with three from the JJP.
The BJP asserts its majority in the 90-member Assembly with support from 41 BJP MLAs and six independent legislators.
Meanwhile, Nayan Pal Rawat, an independent MLA from the Prithla constituency, claimed that Manohar Lal Khattar retains support from 48 MLAs and does not need the backing of Dushyant Chautala's JJP anymore. Rawat stated that the BJP aimed to maximize seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections by breaking away from the alliance.
Five JJP MLAs reportedly missed a meeting convened by Dushyant in Delhi following the alliance's collapse, hinting at a potential shift towards the saffron party.
Last week, BJP's Hisar MP Brijendra Singh had joined the Congress citing "compelling political reasons
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