Haryana election results: Manohar Lal Khattar to stake claim to form government in Haryana today

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar will be elected as the BJP legeslative party leader at a meeting in Chandigarh and will then stake claim before the Governor to form the government in Haryana.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form government in the state of Haryana with support from Dushyant Chautala led Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), Union Home Minister Amit Shah had announced on Friday, a day after BJP fell short of reaching the majority in the state election.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and BJP general secretary Arun Singh will be present at the meeting as central observers.

Eight Independent MLAs have held out their support to the BJP, with six of them meeting its working president JP Nadda. BJP has 40 Mls in the 90 member Haryana Assembly.

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