Manoharlal Khattar may become the new BJP president, succeeding JP Nadda, replacing Nadda as the BJP national president in January. Sanjay Joshi is also being discussed to return to the national structure of the organization.
Manoharlal Khattar is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former campaigner of the RSS. He represented the Karnal constituency in the Haryana Legislative Assembly. Manoharlal Khattar was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Haryana for the first time on 26 October 2014 after the BJP's victory in the 2014 Haryana Assembly elections. After the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections, the BJP formed an alliance with the Janayak Janata Party and Khattar was sworn in as Chief Minister for the second time on 27 October 2019.
The national president will be elected after the president in the states In more than half of the states, the election of the National President will be held after the election of the President. It may be noted that two phases of BJP's membership drive were completed on Tuesday and now the third phase of making active members is going to start from Wednesday, which will last till October 31.
When will booth committees be formed? Booth committees will be formed after the completion of the membership drive. After this, district presidents and then region presidents will be elected. According to the BJP constitution, the state presidents will elect the members of the national council, which will elect the national president. This process may take two to three months to complete.
Elections may be held in January It is believed that the new national president will be elected in January. The membership drive will start later in the elections of four states like Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Maharashtra and Jharkhand, due to which the organizational elections here will also start late. Excluding these four states, the BJP had set a target of 10 crore members and managed to make six crore members in the first phase till September 25.
Who is Manoharlal Khattar?
Khattar was born on 5 May 1954 in Nindana village of Meham taluka in Rohtak district of Haryana in a Punjabi Hindu family. After the partition of India in 1947, his father Harbans Lal Khattar came from Jhang district of West Punjab and settled here. Khattar did his matriculation from Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government College, Rohtak. After this he ran a shop near Sadar Bazar while completing his graduation degree from Delhi University.
During this time Khattar joined the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and became a full-time campaigner three years later. As a preacher he is celibate for life. Before joining the BJP in 1994, he worked as a full-time campaigner for 14 years.
Between 2000-2014, Khattar was the general secretary of the BJP organization in Haryana. He was the Chairman of BJP's Haryana Election Campaign Committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections. After this he became a member of the National Working Committee of the BJP. In the 2014 Haryana Assembly elections, Khattar won the Karnal constituency by a huge margin on a BJP ticket. BJP won majority in Haryana for the first time and Khattar became the first BJP Chief Minister of Haryana. After the 2019 Haryana assembly elections, Khattar was sworn in as Chief Minister for the second time in alliance with Dushyant Chautala's Janayak Janata Party.
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