Nayab Saini, Haryana BJP president, to be sworn in as CM today
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New Delhi: Hours after Manohar Lal Khattar and his cabinet ministers tendered their resignations, OBC politician and president of the Haryana BJP Nayab Singh Saini was chosen as the state's next chief minister on Tuesday.
Saini, who is an MP from Kurukshetra, was unanimously elected as the leader of the state BJP legislature group and will be sworn in later in the day, party MLAs Subhash Sudha and J P Dalal told reporters.
The governor will now be met by the BJP and its allies, six independent MLAs. Later on today, the new Chief Minister is anticipated to take the oath of office. The BJP has forty-one MLAs in the ninety-member Haryana Assembly. In addition, MLA Gopal Kanda of the Haryana Lokhit Party and five independent MLAs support it.
With PTI inputs
