<p>Chandigarh: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/nayab-singh-saini">Nayab Singh Saini</a> will take oath as the chief minister of Haryana at a ceremony in Panchkula where Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP bigwigs and NDA partners will be in attendance on Thursday.</p><p>Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Saini, who will become the chief minister for the second time.</p><p>Ministers of Saini's cabinet are also likely to be sworn in at the ceremony. Haryana can have a maximum of 14 ministers, including the chief minister.</p><p>Massive security arrangements have been made for the ceremony.</p><p>Hours before the ceremony, Saini visited the Valmiki Bhawan and offered prayers at a gurdwara and the Mansa Devi temple in Panchkula.</p><p>He told reporters that the new BJP government will work towards taking Haryana forward at a rapid pace under the leadership of PM Modi.</p><p>The people of Haryana have shown faith in the Modi government's policies, he said on the assembly poll results.</p><p>Replying to a question, Saini said the BJP's 'Sankalp Patra' (poll manifesto) will be fully implemented.</p><p>"Look at our 2014 Sankalp Patra and 2019 Sankalp Patra, we implemented them completely and now this Sankalp Patra will also be implemented by our government," he said.</p>.Nayab Singh Saini stakes claim to form govt in Haryana.<p>In the October 5 assembly polls, the BJP secured an unprecedented third term in Haryana, winning 48 seats in the 90-member assembly. The Congress won 37 seats.</p><p>Saini, 54, was unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party in a meeting held at the party office in Panchkula on Wednesday.</p><p>In a departure from tradition, the BJP had declared that Saini would remain chief minister if the party returned to power in Haryana after the assembly polls.</p><p>Saini, an OBC face of the party, had replaced Manohar Lal Khattar as the chief minister of Haryana in March. He won Ladwa assembly seat in Kurukshetra district by a margin of 16,054 votes.</p><p>Saini's elevation from the Haryana BJP president to the chief minister in March came at a time when the party was facing anti-incumbency following Khattar's tenure of nine-and-a-half years and attacks from a buoyant opposition on farmers' issues, unemployment, Agnipath scheme, inflation, and law and order.</p><p>The BJP's gamble paid off with Saini leading the BJP to victory, defying exit poll predictions of a clean sweep for the Congress.</p>
<p>Chandigarh: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/nayab-singh-saini">Nayab Singh Saini</a> will take oath as the chief minister of Haryana at a ceremony in Panchkula where Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP bigwigs and NDA partners will be in attendance on Thursday.</p><p>Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya will administer the oath of office and secrecy to Saini, who will become the chief minister for the second time.</p><p>Ministers of Saini's cabinet are also likely to be sworn in at the ceremony. Haryana can have a maximum of 14 ministers, including the chief minister.</p><p>Massive security arrangements have been made for the ceremony.</p><p>Hours before the ceremony, Saini visited the Valmiki Bhawan and offered prayers at a gurdwara and the Mansa Devi temple in Panchkula.</p><p>He told reporters that the new BJP government will work towards taking Haryana forward at a rapid pace under the leadership of PM Modi.</p><p>The people of Haryana have shown faith in the Modi government's policies, he said on the assembly poll results.</p><p>Replying to a question, Saini said the BJP's 'Sankalp Patra' (poll manifesto) will be fully implemented.</p><p>"Look at our 2014 Sankalp Patra and 2019 Sankalp Patra, we implemented them completely and now this Sankalp Patra will also be implemented by our government," he said.</p>.Nayab Singh Saini stakes claim to form govt in Haryana.<p>In the October 5 assembly polls, the BJP secured an unprecedented third term in Haryana, winning 48 seats in the 90-member assembly. The Congress won 37 seats.</p><p>Saini, 54, was unanimously elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party in a meeting held at the party office in Panchkula on Wednesday.</p><p>In a departure from tradition, the BJP had declared that Saini would remain chief minister if the party returned to power in Haryana after the assembly polls.</p><p>Saini, an OBC face of the party, had replaced Manohar Lal Khattar as the chief minister of Haryana in March. He won Ladwa assembly seat in Kurukshetra district by a margin of 16,054 votes.</p><p>Saini's elevation from the Haryana BJP president to the chief minister in March came at a time when the party was facing anti-incumbency following Khattar's tenure of nine-and-a-half years and attacks from a buoyant opposition on farmers' issues, unemployment, Agnipath scheme, inflation, and law and order.</p><p>The BJP's gamble paid off with Saini leading the BJP to victory, defying exit poll predictions of a clean sweep for the Congress.</p>