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Swearing-in ceremony of Nayab Singh government in Haryana on October 17 | India News – Times of India
It said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leaders and chief ministers of some other states will attend the event.
“We have received the Prime Minister’s nod that the CM and the Council of Ministers will take oath on October 17 in Panchkula,” Khattar said.
Meanwhile, preparations are underway for the event in Panchkula, a senior official told PTI.
“We are preparing the venue for the event,” Panchkula Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr Yash Garg told PTI over phone.
A district-level committee, chaired by the DC, has been formed to make preparations for the ceremony.
Najab Singh Saini, who replaced Manohar Lal Khattar as chief minister in March and hails from the other backward classes, will take oath as chief minister of Haryana.
Meanwhile, sources say representing all parliamentary constituencies and ensuring caste balance will determine the party high command’s decision on the new council of ministers.
Special attention is likely to be given to Jat, Khatri, Brahmin, OBC and SC MLAs for a balanced government, sources said.
Barring former Home Minister Anil Vij, who would be entering the Assembly for the seventh time, a number of MLAs, including debutants, have started calling on BJP President JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, former Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who was in charge of Haryana elections along with MP Biplab Deb. On Friday, the party’s core Haryana group, including Pradhan, Deb and Khattar, deliberated on structuring the cabinet.
CM Saini, Haryana BJP president Mohan Lal Badoli and state BJP leader Surender Nagar also joined them. Prominent among those who appealed to the high command leaders included Rajya Sabha MP Kiran Choudhry and her MLA daughter Shruti Choudhry, Rajya Sabha MP Krishan Lal Panwar, MLAs Laxman Yadav, Mahipal Dhanda and Mool Chand Sharma. Sources said Panwar and Gangwa are the frontrunners for the speaker’s post. Gangwa was the deputy chairman in the previous government, while Panwar is a face of the SC and also an experienced lawmaker.
Similarly, among the Jat faces, names of Dhanda, Suneel Sangwan and Rai MLA Krishna Gehlawat are doing the rounds. Kalka MLA Shakti Rani Sharma, Minister Mool Chand Sharma and Devender Attri, who defeated Brijendra Singh, are strong contenders for Brahmin slots, while Anil Vij, Ghanshyam Dass Arora and Parmod Vij are on the bill from the Punjabi community. Arora is a three-time MLA, while Parmod Vij has won the Assembly elections twice. Since Saini is from the OBC category, the party can consider one Yadav and two SC MLAs for ministerial seats.
The Haryana cabinet can have a maximum of fourteen ministers, including the chief minister.
In the parliamentary elections, the BJP won 48 seats, while the Congress won 37 seats and the Indian National Lok Dal won only two seats. Both the Jannayak Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party suffered significant losses.
