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.
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Nayab Singh Saini, the 54-year-old OBC leader, was administered oath by Governor Bandaru Dattatreya at the oath-taking ceremony held at the Raj Bhawan.
As the official tenure of the 17th Lok Sabha session led by the NDA is slated to conclude in June 2024, political parties across the country have initiated their election campaigns. The upcoming elections will see a face-off between ruling alliance NDA and the recently established I.N.D.I.A bloc.
Earlier, Khattar and all 13 other members of the BJP-led council of ministers submitted their resignations to the Governor prompting the party to form a new government without JJP on board.
As the new leadership takes charge, expectations are high for addressing key issues and driving progress across various sectors in the state. The newly appointed ministers are poised to tackle challenges head-on and work towards the betterment of Haryana.
The development comes just weeks ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. Khattar’s second term as chief minister was also to end in October, when the assembly polls are due.
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