BJP chief Manohar Lal Khattar held a press convention moments after Nayab Singh Saini took oath as Haryana chief minister changing him on Tuesday. While talking on breakup with ally JJP, he said the ten seats within the state had been received by the BJP and the JJP leaders will need to have talked to the central management.
There is nothing official however they (JJP) had determined that they may struggle the Lok Sabha seats individually and accordingly the selections have been made, he added.
On Anil Vij’s absence on the oath-taking ceremony, he said he was upset however the concern will probably be resolved quickly.
“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,” he added.
Meanwhile, Saini was sworn in as Haryana’s new chief minister, hours after Khattar and his Cabinet ministers resigned from their posts. Five others took the oath as members of the brand new council of ministers together with Saini. They are BJP leaders Kanwar Pal, Mool Chand Sharma, Jai Parkash Dalal and Banwari Lal and Independent MLA Ranjit Singh Chautala.
Saini’s alternative as CM underlines BJP’s thrust on consolidation of OBC votes
The BJP’s resolution to have a second OBC chief – Saini – be a part of its rank of 12 chief ministers marks its decided push to consolidate the neighborhood’s votes and blunt the opposition’s try to weaken its assist base forward of Lok Sabha elections.
Three months after the BJP made the shock choose of Mohan Yadav to interchange one other Other Backward Classes (OBC) chief Shivraj Singh Chouhan as Madhya Pradesh chief minister, the celebration on Tuesday selected Saini, a first-term MP and its Haryana president, to take over from Manohar Lal Khattar.
Saini’s elevation as Haryana chief minister matches in with a sample that has gathered tempo within the BJP after the Congress and its allies just like the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh and the RJD in Bihar started making an aggressive bid to woo the biggest group of communities and politically most vital, particularly in Hindi-speaking states, by pushing for a caste census.
Following its large win in three Hindi heartland states in December, the BJP changed its four-term CM Chouhan with Yadav and introduced a number of different leaders from OBCs and different historically deprived sections like SCs and STs as chief ministers and deputy chief ministes.
Vishnu Deo Sai (ST) grew to become Chhattisgarh CM whereas certainly one of his two deputies, Arun Sao, hails from the OBCs. Jagdish Devda, certainly one of two deputies to Yadav, is a Dalit and so is Deputy Chief Minister Prem Chand Bairwa in Rajasthan.
While Chouhan additionally got here from a backward neighborhood, Yadav comes from a caste that’s most quite a few within the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, each of which collectively account for 120 Lok Sabha seats and had been swept by the BJP and its allies within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Yadavs have a sizeable presence in lots of different states.
The BJP had final 12 months made Samrat Choudhary, a Kushwaha, its Bihar state president and additional boosted his profile by making him certainly one of its two deputy CMs in Bihar below Nitish Kumar.
Saini’s eponymous caste additionally has a good presence in a number of Hindi states and Kushwahas and Malis, each backward castes, additionally establish with it, political watchers say.
Yadav and Saini are additionally homegrown backward BJP leaders as they’ve had a protracted innings within the celebration at its varied organisational stage.
Having risen by way of the ranks, they may function the BJP’s becoming reply to opposition OBC satraps like SP president Akhilesh Yadav and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav, each inheritor to highly effective political households.
While Rahul Gandhi has spearheaded the Congress’ outreach to the OBC with the demand of caste census, the Yadav satraps from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have been reaching out to completely different castes below the group to take on the BJP.
The BJP has despatched Mohan Yadav to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar since he grew to become chief minister to attach together with his neighborhood, which kinds a strong base of the SP and the RJD in these states respectively.
Saini is prone to be its one other backward face, particularly for the non-dominant OBC castes whose assist to the BJP has been essential to its rise in numerous states since Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the celebration to energy on the Centre in 2014.
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