Manohar Lal Khattar

Manohar Lal Khattar
10th Chief Minister of Haryana
Assumed office
26 October 2014
Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki
Satyadev Narayan Arya
Preceded by Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Constituency Karnal
Personal details
Born (1954-05-05) 5 May 1954[1]
Nindana, Punjab, India
(now in Haryana, India)
Political party Bharatiya Janata Party
Alma mater Delhi University
Occupation politician
Website manoharlalkhattar.in
[2]

Manohar Lal Khattar (born 5 May 1954) is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician, is the 10th Chief Minister of Haryana. 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 Khatri caste.[3] Khattar was born in 1954 in Nindana village of Meham Chobisi tehsil in Rohtak district of East Punjab (Now In Haryana). His father, Harbans Lal Khattar, migrated to an Area of East Punjab (Now Called Haryana) from Jhang district of West Punjab Pakistan 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.[4]

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.[5] He worked as a full-time pracharak for 14 years before moving to BJP, in 1994.[2][6]

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.[7] Subsequently, he became a member of BJP's National Executive Committee.[7]

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.[8] His opponent, the Indian National Congress candidate, accused Khattar of being an "outsider" not native to Karnal. But Modi wave helped Mr. Khatter win elections by heavy margin. [9] 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.[10] He has largely been unsuccessful to curtail mob violence happening multiple times,[11] despite the imposition of prohibitory orders in the state.

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 Rao Inderjeet Singh 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 24×7 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]

E-governance

Manohar Lal Khattar has introduced e-services through Common Service Centres including biometric attendance system in all the government offices through which attendance of all officers will be available online and monitored.[16]

Women's empowerment

Manohar Lal Khattar's Government has been in news for taking steps to implement [Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana] scheme that was flagged off by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The child sex ratio has been improved in Haryana since he assumed power. It is now 889 girls per 1,000 boys. "Efforts are being made to further take it (child sex ratio) to above 900," Khattar has said in a public statement.[17]

Development

M.L Khattar believs in transparency and merit based recruitment policy in the Haryana government services. He has announced new road projects, to ease traffic jams in Gurgaon and improve connectivity for commuters but have been unsuccessful on account of completing these road projects, Southern Peripheral Road & Dwarka Expressway Road. He is also said to have submitted proposals for launching Regional Rapid Rail Transit services at Delhi-Gurgaon-Alwar and Delhi-Sonipat-Panipat to decrease dependence on roads. High-speed cable car facility is also underway for which discussions are on with a Spanish company.[18]

Since, last three years after forming his government in Haryana. All efforts are made to bring transparency, faith, fairness in government. Since his tenure as CM, Haryana govt. has been able to provide govt. jobs to talented, hardworking educated youths from approximately all 6800 villages of Haryana on the merit based transparent recruitment policy which is big success as compared to previous governments. Due to this transparency parents are forced to tell their wards that only harwork and educational merit will prevail in the upcoming times and that is a big success in convincing citizens of Haryana that transparency will be respected in every field.This has made cry those who believed in partiality, casteism and discrimination against others. This had resulted in inclusive policy for recruitment in Haryana.

Construction of memorial

Manohar Lal Khattar has publicly declared that his government will build a memorial to mark the sacrifice of Garud Commando Gursewak Singh, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Pathankot.[19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Haryana Gets Manohar Lal Khattar As New Chief Minister". Metro Journalist. 2014-02-21.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Profile of Manohar Lal Khattar" (PDF). manoharlalkhattar.in. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Roychoudhury, Shibaji (22 October 2014). "Manohar Lal Khattar, who blamed women for India's rising rapes, is new Haryana CM". Scroll. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Profile: Manoharlal Khattar". MyNeta.com. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  5. ↑ "Evoking memories of lawless Chautala-regime helps BJP win Haryana". Arhis Mohan. Business Standard. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Who is Manohar Lal Khattar?". India Today. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
  7. 1 2 "Will accept decision of party's parliamentary board, says BJP's CM-post frontrunner Manohar Lal Khattar". Zee Media Bureau. Zee News. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "BJP workers launch signature campaign against outsiders in Karnal". Anita Singh. Times of India. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  9. ↑ "Haryana elections: Khattar rides on Modi wave, Congress plays the outsider card in Karnal". IBN Live. Priyanka Rathi. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  10. ↑ "Freedom must have limits too, girls should dress decently to not lure boys, says BJP's Karnal candidate". Pragati Ratti. IBN Live. 10 October 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  11. ↑ "HTDS Content Services: Article Search". htsyndication.com. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  12. ↑ "Manohar Lal Khattar to be sworn in as Haryana CM on October 26 in oath ceremony at panchkula". India Today. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
  13. ↑ "BJP chooses Manohar Lal Khattar as Haryana Chief Minister". The Economic Times. 21 October 2014. Retrieved 2014-10-21.
  14. ↑ "Haryana: CM Khattar announces all-woman police stations for all districts". Hindustan Times. 2 May 2015.
  15. ↑ "CM Manohar Lal Khattar announces implementation of Haryana Control of Organised Crime Act". DNA. 13 May 2015.
  16. ↑ "Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar to launch seven e-services on May 2". DNA. 30 April 2015.
  17. ↑ "'Haryana's child sex ratio improves to 889 girls per 1,000 boys'". Hindustan Times. 7 January 2016.
  18. ↑ "Two new road projects to decongest traffic in Gurgaon: Manohar Lal Khattar". DNA. 23 October 2015.
  19. ↑ "Memorial to be build [sic] for slain Commando Gursewak: Manohar Lal Khattar". Economic Times. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
Preceded by
Bhupinder Singh Hooda		 Chief Minister of Haryana
26 October 2014 – present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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