"Prime Minister has blessed me. Prime Minister said that Haryana has to be taken forward with strength by taking everyone together," Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said after meeting with PM Modi.
"I come from a humble family background, no one is in politics in my family. I am just a party worker of the BJP and today I have been given such a big opportunity. I must say that this can be only possible in a party like the BJP," Saini said speaking at the State Assembly.
The newly elected CM Saini said that the BJP-led government in the state has the support of a total of 48 MLAs adding that the Speaker has been urged to conduct the floor test on Wednesday.
As the newly appointed Haryana chief minister Nayab Singh Saini is set to face a floor test during a special session of the assembly today, former Haryana Home minister Anil Vij said that "situation keeps on changing" and he "will continue to work for the BJP".
Nayab Singh Saini, the Lok Sabha MP from Haryana's Kurukshetra, met Governor Bandaru Dattatreya on Tuesday to formally stake claim to form the government in the state, replacing his predecessor, senior BJP leader Manohar Lal Khattar.
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Tuesday said that the BJP-led government in the state has the support of a total of 48 MLAs adding that the speaker has been urged to conduct the floor test on Wednesday.
After the collapse of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) alliance and the subsequent resignation of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, former CM Khattar said that the demand of the JJP leaders over the Lok Sabha polls seat allocation may have led to the split o
Five other ministers, who were part of Khattar's cabinet, took oath with Saini at a swiftly organised ceremony on Tuesday evening, hours after the chief minister and his entire cabinet resigned.
Nayab Singh Saini was sworn in earlier today as the new chief minister of Haryana, replacing Manohar Lal Khattar. In addition to Saini, the BJP's JP Dalal, Moolchand Sharma, Banwari Lal, and Kanwar Pal Gurjar--all from the old cabinet--took oath as ministers.
After BJP's Nayab Singh Saini took oath as the Haryana Chief Minister, MP from Hisar, Brijendra Singh on Tuesday said that the Bhartiya Janta Party's alliance with Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) was a dangerous one.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nayab Singh Saini took oath as the Haryana Chief Minister on Tuesday at a swearing-in ceremony in Raj Bhawan, Chandigarh.