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Manohar Lal Khattar sworn in as new chief minister of Haryana

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Manohar Lal Khattar on Sunday took oath as new Chief Minister of BJP's first government in Haryana in presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Sushma Swaraj, LK Advani, Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh are among other leaders who were also present at Khattar's oath taking ceremony in Panchkula.

60-year-old Khattar is also the first Punjabi to become the Chief Minister of the state.

Khattar, a first-time MLA, has worked as an RSS Pracharak for 40 long years. Born in Rohtak district, he had contested the assembly elections from Karnal. He won the Karnal seat with a margin of 63,736 votes.

He is stated to be close to the Prime Minister and BJP chief Amit Shah

Along with Khattar, nine other MLAs also took an oath during the ceremony. Captain Abhimanyu, Ram Bilas Sharma, OP Dhankar, Kavita Jain, Anil Vij, Narveer Singh also took an oath as a Cabinet Minister.

The saffron party won 47 seats while the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) won 19, the Congress 15, HJC-BL two, BSP and SAD bagged one seat each while Independents got five.

Read more: All you need to know about Manohar Lal Khattar- From RSS pracharak to Haryana CM

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