Gurugram: A day after he was changed by Nayab Singh Saini as Haryana chief minister, Manohar Lal Khattar was named by the BJP as its contender for the Karnal Lok Sabha seat, in its second record of 72 candidates introduced Wednesday.
The record accommodates the names of candidates for six of the ten Lok Sabha seats of Haryana — the opposite candidates being Banto Kataria from Ambala, Ashok Tanwar from Sirsa, Dharambir Singh from Bhiwani-Mahendragarh, Rao Inderjit Singh from Gurugram and Krishan Pal Gurjar from Faridabad.
The BJP is but to call its candidates from Hisar, Rohtak, Sonipat, and Kurukshetra.
The BJP’s sitting MP from Hisar Brijendra Singh had stop the get together to hitch the Congress Sunday, Kurukshetra sitting MP Nayab Singh Saini changed Khattar as CM Tuesday, whereas Sonipat MP Ramesh Kaushik has discovered himself within the centre of an issue over an alleged objectionable video going viral on social media.
Khattar’s nomination from Karnal has not come as a shock to anybody as he had himself hinted about it throughout his interplay with media individuals after Saini’s swearing-in.
When media individuals requested him about his plans, Khattar mentioned that although it was to be determined by the get together’s parliamentary board, he felt that he might be fielded as a candidate for Lok Sabha polls.
Before this, as soon as Saini was elected as BJP’s legislature get together chief by the MLAs, BJP’s Karnal MP Sanjay Bhatia was additionally requested by media individuals whether or not Khattar would exchange him because the get together’s candidate. In response, Bhatia mentioned what might be higher information for him if an individual he treats as his “guru” is changing him.
Sources within the BJP really feel Bhatia could now be appointed as state BJP chief, changing now CM Saini.
After Saini gained the ground take a look at within the state meeting Wednesday, Khattar resigned as Karnal MLA, leaving the seat for Saini.
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Focus on Sirsa, Rohtak
Last yr, the BJP’s inner survey had reportedly discovered that Sirsa and Rohtak had been weak seats, and the get together might take into account altering its candidates for these two seats.
The get together had additionally reportedly taken word of sure “unfavourable” statements made by Rohtak MP Arvind Sharma and Hisar MP Brijendra Singh.
While Brijendra Singh is now not with the get together, the BJP, it’s learnt, is considering of a number of names for Rohtak, together with actor Randeep Hooda — who directed and performed the protagonist within the soon-to-be launched film Swatantra Veer Savarkar, primarily based on Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar — get together nationwide secretary O.P. Dhankar and even former minister Manish Grover.
When worldwide boxer Saweety Boora and her husband Deepak Hooda joined the BJP final month, she had claimed that the get together might take into account them for the ticket, however their names didn’t determine within the record of probables ready by the get together, BJP sources advised The Print.
Ashok Tanwar’s ticket was seen as a definite chance ever since he joined the BJP after quitting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in January this yr and began a marketing campaign in Sirsa.
Reportedly, he first met Sirsa MP Sunita Duggal and guaranteed her of his help if the get together renominated her.
Ambala sitting MP Rattan Lal Kataria had handed away in May final yr. The BJP has nominated his widow Banto Kataria this time.
Krishan Pal Gurjar, BJP MP from Faridabad, and Rao Inderjit Singh, MP from Gurugram, have been ministers within the Modi cupboard since 2019 and their re-nominations had been by no means unsure, in keeping with get together sources.
The get together, in keeping with sources, was additionally of the view that its candidate for Bhiwani-Mahendragarh might be determined in session with Rao Inderjit Singh due to a lot of Yadav voters. Rao Inderjit Singh had earlier described Dharambir Singh as a powerful candidate who has labored arduous for the constituency.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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