Our Alliance Was Necessary For Stability In Haryana: Dushyant Chautala

Assembly Elections 2019: BJP will meet Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya to stake the claim to form the next government in Haryana on Saturday. The BJP legislative party will meet to elect their leader. Manohar Lal Khattar is expected to be re-elected in the meeting. 

BJP, who won 40 out of 90 seats in Haryana assembly elections this year, fell six short of the majority figure. However, a total of nine MLAs including seven Independents have now extended their written support to the party for the formation of new government. 

Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) leader Abhay Chautala also extended his support to BJP.  He is the sole elected member from his party. Earlier, Haryana Lokhit Party leader Gopal Kanda and seven Independent MLAs - Sombir Sangwan, Randhir Singh Gollen, Dharam Pal Gonder, Balraj Kundu, Nanyan Pal Rawat, Ranjit Singh, and Rakesh Daultabad - also extended their support.

Meanwhile, Dushyant Chautala has been elected the leader of Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) legislative party, Amarjeet Dhanda was chosen the chief whip while Eshwar Singh was elected as the deputy leader at first meeting of the newly elected MLAs on Friday.