Manohar Lal Khattar

Manohar Lal Khattar
Manohar Lal Khattar.
10th Chief Minister of Haryana
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 October 2014
Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki
Preceded by Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Constituency Karnal
Personal details
Born 5 May 1954[1]
Nindana village, Maham tehsil, Rohtak district, Haryana, India
Nationality Indian
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse(s) Unmarried
Alma mater Delhi University
Occupation Agriculturist, politician
Religion Hinduism
Website manoharlalkhattar.in
[2]

Manohar Lal Khattar (born 5 May 1954) is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician, and current Chief Minister of Haryana state in India. He is a former RSS pracharak. He represents Karnal constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly, and was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Haryana after BJP's win in the Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2014.

Personal life

Khattar was born in 1954 in Nindana village of Maham tehsil in Rohtak district of Haryana. His father, Harbans Lal Khattar, was a shopkeeper who migrated to Haryana from West Punjab following the Partition of India in 1947. His family settled in the Banyani village of Rohtak district and took up farming.[2]

Khattar completed his matriculation (final year of high school) from Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government College, Rohtak.[2] He then moved to Delhi, and ran a shop near Sadar Bazar[2] while completing his Bachelor's degree from Delhi University.[3]

Political career

Khattar joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1977, and became a full-time pracharak three years later. As a pracharak, he is a lifelong bachelor.[4] He worked as a full-time pracharak for 14 years before moving to the organization's political wing, BJP, in 1994.[2][5]

During 2000-2014, Khattar was Organizational General Secretary of the BJP in Haryana.[2] He was the Chairman of BJP's Haryana Election Campaign Committee for 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.[6] Subsequently, he became a member of BJP's National Executive Committee.[6]

In 2014, Khattar was nominated as BJP's candidate from Karnal constituency for the Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2014. The party's workers and supporters in Karnal launched a signature campaign, asking the party leadership to field a local candidate instead of him.[7] His opponent, the Indian National Congress candidate Surendra Singh Narwal, accused Khattar of being an "outsider" not native to Karnal. He claimed that during Narendra Modi's campaign rally, people raised slogans such as Bahari bhagao, Karnal bachao ("Send the outsider back home, save Karnal").[8] During his election campaign, in response to a question on Khaps, Khattar stated that girls must not "lure" boys and must wear decent clothes to not attract the opposite sex.[9]

In the elections, the BJP gained a majority in Haryana for the first time, and Khattar won his maiden election by a margin of 63,736 votes. During a party meeting, his name was proposed for the Chief Minister of Haryana post by Haryana BJP President Ram Bilas Sharma, seconded by other strong Chief Minister of Haryana claimant Abhimanyu Sindhu and supported by many MLAs. He became the BJP's first Chief Minister of Haryana after his swearing-in ceremony on 26 October 2014.[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Haryana Gets Manohar Lal Khattar As New Chief Minister". Metro Journalist. 2014-02-21.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Profile of Manohar Lal Khattar" (PDF). manoharlalkhattar.in. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  3. ↑ "Profile: Manoharlal Khattar". MyNeta.com. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  4. ↑ "Evoking memories of lawless Chautala-regime helps BJP win Haryana". Arhis Mohan. Business Standard. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Who is Manohar Lal Khattar?". India Today. October 21, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Will accept decision of party's parliamentary board, says BJP's CM-post frontrunner Manohar Lal Khattar". Zee Media Bureau. Zee News. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  7. ↑ "BJP workers launch signature campaign against outsiders in Karnal". Anita Singh. Times of India. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Haryana elections: Khattar rides on Modi wave, Congress plays the outsider card in Karnal". IBN Live. Priyanka Rathi. October 14, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  9. ↑ "Freedom must have limits too, girls should dress decently to not lure boys, says BJP's Karnal candidate". Pragati Ratti. IBN Live. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "Manohar Lal Khattar to be sworn in as Haryana CM on October 26 in oath ceremony at panchkula". India Today. October 21, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
  11. ↑ "BJP chooses Manohar Lal Khattar as Haryana Chief Minister". October 21, 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-21.

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Preceded by
Bhupinder Singh Hooda		 Chief Minister of Haryana
26 October 2014 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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