Chandigarh: Nayab Singh Saini was on Wednesday chosen as the leader of the Haryana BJP Legislature Party in a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Chandigarh.Nayab Saini will now take oath as Haryana Chief Minister for the second time on October 17.

Nayab Singh Saini was chosen as leader of Haryana BJP Legislature Party and will take oath as chief minister on 17 October. Saini succeeded Manohar Lal Khattar, who resigned ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Nayab Singh Saini, 54, was elected as the state legislature party leader during a meeting of Haryana BJP MLAs at the BJP office in Panchkula.

Panchkula: Nayab Singh Saini was unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party in Haryana here on Wednesday. Newly elected Haryana BJP MLAs elected Saini in a meeting, which was also attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav as central observers.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is set to visit Haryana on Thursday to attend the oath-taking ceremony of Nayab Singh Saini, who will be sworn in as the Chief Minister.

The importance of the upcoming first meeting of the Haryana BJP legislature party, set to be held at the party office ‘Panch Kamal’ in Panchkula, is evident from the high-profile observers--Union home minister Amit Shah and Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav--BJP has appointed to oversee the election of the party leader,

The BJP had named Nayab Singh Saini, who replaced M L Khattar on the top post, as the party’s CM face ahead of the Assembly polls.

In this episode of DecodeHaryana, The Tribune’s Editor-in-Chief Jyoti Malhotra and Special Correspondent Pradeep Sharma spoke to Mohan Lal Badoli, BJP president, who fielded a volley of questions after saffron party’s splendid hat-trick in the 2024 Haryana assembly elections.