Nayab Singh Saini

Nayab Singh Saini is the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the current Haryana Chief Minister. Saini replaced BJP veteran Manohar Lal Khattar in March this year. Saini was also the BJP Haryana state chief for a brief period from 2023 to 2024. He won Kurukshetra's 2019 Lok Sabha election by defeating Congress leader Nirmal Singh with a massive margin of 3,84,591 votes. He later represented the Karnal Assembly seat after becoming the CM and winning a bypoll in June this year. He won by a margin of 41,540 votes against Congress candidate Tarlochan Singh. Nayab Singh lost his first election from the Naraingarh Assembly constituency in 2009 and stood fifth with a dismal 8,082 votes. However, he won the seat in the 2014 Haryana polls by defeating Congress sitting MLA Ram Kishan with a margin of 24,361 votes. He held several ministries, including Labour and Employment, Mines and Geology, and New and Renewable Energy, as Minister of State (MoS) in the Manohar Lal Khattar government. He is contesting from the Ladwa constituency this time in the 2024 Haryana Assembly polls.