Nayab Singh Saini was on Wednesday elected as the leader of the BJP’s legislature party in Haryana and is all set to take oath as the Chief Minister for the second term tomorrow, October 17, in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top leaders of the BJP.
Saini, 54, was elected as the state legislature party leader during a meeting of Haryana BJP MLAs at the BJP office in Panchkula. The meeting was also attended by Home Minister Amit Shah and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav.
Expressing gratitude towards the public of Haryana for electing BJP for third time in the state, CM-designate Nayab Singh Saini said, “I thank the public of Haryana for electing the BJP government in Haryana for the third time.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are likely to attend the oath-taking event on Thursday.
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The BJP had registered an unprecedented victory in the Haryana Assembly elections, the results of which were declared on October 8, by defying all odds and exit poll predictions, that had given an edge to the Congress, and won on 48 out of the 90 seats in the state.
This will be Nayab Singh Saini’s second consecutive stint in the office of the Chief Minister of Haryana. Earlier in March this year, he had replaced Manohar Lal Khattar, now a Union Minister, as the chief minister of Haryana, after the then Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala broke his party Jannayak Janta Party’s ties with the BJP and walked out of the alliance with his 10 MLAs. Khattar resigned after this and Saini was chosen as the CM when BJP formed the government again.