Hours after outgoing Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his cabinet ministers submitted their resignations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced party leader Nayab Singh Saini as the new Chief Minister of Haryana.
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.
The Kurukshetra MP, who hails from the OBC community, was also the state president of Haryana BJP. He was appointed to the post in October last year.
Saini’s political career began with the BJP in 1996, when he started within the Haryana BJP unit, working alongside the state general secretary until 2000.
Jumping through the ranks, Saini became the district general secretary of the BJP Youth Wing in Ambala in 2002, followed by his appointment as the district president in Ambala in 2005.
He later became the state general secretary of the BJP Kisan Morcha in Haryana in 2009 and district president of Ambala BJP in 2012.
Saini was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Narayangarh constituency in 2014.
Singh will be sworn in as the new Haryana CM on Tuesday evening (March 12) along with his new cabinet. The oath-taking ceremony will be held at the governor’s residence later.