Haryana: ML Khattar to stake govt formation claim today
Chandigarh, Oct 26: Manohar Lal Khattar will stake claim to form government in Haryana on Saturday and will meet Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya in Chandigarh later in the day. The BJP has 40 MLAs of its own and with the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), which has 10, having decided to support the saffron party, Khattar has the support of a total of 50 legislators.
The
majority
mark
needed
in
90
member
Haryana
Assembly
is
46.
The
BJP
fell
six
seats
short
of
a
majority
in
the
Haryana
Assembly
elections
2019.
First,
it
was
the
seven
independent
MLAs
who
pledged
their
support
to
the
party.
Among
those
who
extended
support
was
former
Haryana
Minister
Gopal
Kanda,
who
is
facing
several
charges
and
out
on
bail.
Later on Friday evening, the BJP clinched an alliance with Dushyant Chautala's Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) by offering it the post of deputy chief minister.
[BJP-JJP to form govt in Haryana, Dushyant likely to be deputy CM]
Khattar will be elected the BJP legislative party leader at a meeting in Chandigarh today and will then stake claim before the Governor. Dushyant Chautala is likely to be his deputy.
We are forming a government in the state with @JJPofficial for the development of Haryana. pic.twitter.com/HawZnIwki0
— Manohar Lal (@mlkhattar) October 25, 2019
Chautala said that his party believed the alliance was necessary to ensure stability in Haryana.
Khattar said both the parties had worked together in the past.
Haryana got a fractured mandate, resulting in a hung Assembly, with the BJP winning 40 seats, Congress 31, JJP 10, independents 8 and INLD one.