Day after praise from PM Modi, Manohar Lal Khattar out as Haryana CM: Why BJP replaced him
The day began with talk of a split in the BJP-Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) alliance in Haryana and the resignation of the Manohar Lal Khattar government. By late afternoon, the alliance was over, Khattar was out, and state BJP president Nayab Saini, the Kurukshetra MP, had been declared the new Chief Minister. According to party insiders, Khattar himself proposed Saini’s name at the BJP Legislature Party meeting.