| Manohar Lal Khattar | |
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| मनोहर लाल खट्टर ਮਨੋਹਰ ਲਾਲ ਖਟਰ | |
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| 10th Chief Minister of Haryana | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2014 |
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| Governor | Kaptan Singh Solanki |
| Preceded by | Bhupinder Singh Hooda |
| Constituency | Karnal |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 May 1954 [1] Nindana, Meham tehsil, Rohtak district, Punjab, India (now Haryana, India) |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse(s) | Unmarried |
| Alma mater | Delhi University |
| Occupation | politician |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Website | manoharlalkhattar |
Manohar Lal Khattar(in Hindi मनोहर लाल खट्टर in Punjabi ਮਨੋਹਰ ਲਾਲ ਖਟਰ (born 5 May 1954) is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician, and current Chief Minister of Haryana state in India. He is a former RSS pracharak. He represents Karnal constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly, and was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Haryana after BJP's win in the Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2014.
Personal life
Khattar belongs to Punjabi family.[3]Khattar was born in 1954 in Nindana village of Meham Chobisi, tehsil in Rohtak district of Haryana. His father, Harbans Lal Khattar, was of Khatri caste,[4] who migrated to Haryana from West Punjab following the Partition of India in 1947. His family initially settled in the Banyani village of Rohtak district and took up farming.[2]Khattar completed his matriculation (final year of high school) from Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government College, Rohtak.[2] He then moved to Delhi, and ran a shop near Sadar Bazar[2] while completing his bachelor's degree from Delhi University.[5]
Political career
Khattar joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1977, and became a full-time pracharak three years later. As a pracharak, he is a lifelong bachelor.[6] He worked as a full-time pracharak for 14 years before moving to BJP, in 1994.[2][7]During 2000-2014, Khattar was Organizational General Secretary of the BJP in Haryana.[2] He was the Chairman of BJP's Haryana Election Campaign Committee for 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.[8] Subsequently, he became a member of BJP's National Executive Committee.[8]
In 2014, Khattar was nominated as BJP's candidate from Karnal constituency for the Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 2014. The party's workers and supporters in Karnal launched a signature campaign, asking the party leadership to field a local candidate instead of him.[9] His opponent, the Indian National Congress candidate Surender Singh Narwal, accused Khattar of being an "outsider" not native to Karnal. He claimed that during Narendra Modi's campaign rally, people raised slogans such as Bahari bhagao, Karnal bachao ("Send the outsider back home, save Karnal").[10] During his election campaign, in response to a question on Khaps, Khattar stated that girls must not "lure" boys and must wear decent clothes to not attract the opposite sex.[11]
In the elections, the BJP gained a majority in Haryana for the first time, and Khattar won his maiden election by a margin of 63,736 votes. During a party meeting, his name was proposed for the Chief Minister of Haryana post by Haryana BJP President Ram Bilas Sharma, seconded by other strong Chief Minister of Haryana claimant Abhimanyu Sindhu and supported by many MLAs. He became the BJP's first Chief Minister of Haryana after his swearing-in ceremony on 26 October 2014.[12][13]
Major Initiatives
Police Reforms
Khattar announced that Haryana will have an all-woman police station in each district and around 500 woman constables will be recruited. He also started a 24x7 portal called 'Harsamay' through which anybody can file a complaint online.[14]He has also suggested that Yoga to be a part of police constables training to help keep the police personnel mentally and physically fit. According to media reports, Khattar has said that Police recruitments would be made on Transparent Recruitment Policy (TRP) and 3,060 new houses would be constructed for police personnel at a cost of Rs 550 crore in next three years.[15]
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