An hour after Nayab Singh Saini was sworn in as Haryana Chief Minister, former CM Manohar Lal Khattar on March 12 said senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Anil Vij was very unhappy after being dropped from the new Cabinet. He added that newly appointed CM Nayab Saini will speak with him.
Speaking to reporters, Khattar said, as quoted by news agency ANI, “Anil Vij is our senior leader…It is in his nature that he gets upset quickly but becomes okay soon. There have been such instances before. He is upset but we are talking to him…Our new chief minister will also talk to him.”
Vij, a noted leader from the Haryana BJP, did not find a place in the new Cabinet led by Nayab Singh Saini.
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On Tuesday, in Saini’s Cabinet, five other ministers who were part of Khattar’s Cabinet took oath with the new CM. However, Vij, who was home minister in Khattar’s government, was dropped from the list.
The MLAs who took oath include Kanwar Pal Gujjar, Jai Parkash Dalal, Moolchand Sharma, and Banwari Lal. One independent MLA, Ranjit Singh, was also administered oath by Governor Bandaru Dattatreya. Interestingly all five who were administered oath today were ministers in the outgoing Haryana Cabinet.
Others who were not included in the list are Kamal Gupta, Om Prakash Yadav, Kamlesh Dhanda, and Sandeep Singh.
The new chief minister took oath in Haryana after former CM Manohar Lal Khattar resigned from his post, as seat-sharing talks between the BJP and its ally, the Jannayak Janta Party, for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections failed to progress.
With agency inputs.
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Published: 12 Mar 2024, 08:20 PM IST