Nayab Singh Saini

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Manvir Saini, March 13, 2024: The Times of India

Chandigarh: Nayab Singh Saini’s appointment as Haryana’s 11th CM in a swift, seamless baton change marks more than just another episode in BJP’s season of chief ministerial surprises, starting with Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.


The trajectory of Saini’s career, starting with his R S S moorings, appears to have followed that of his mentor and predecessor Manohar Lal Khattar in more ways than one.


Back in the day, Saini would key in letters and sundry documents for Khattar on a Hindi typewriter. Somewhere down the line, a computer took the rickety old typewriter’s place, but Khattar’s man Friday seemingly became irreplaceable in his inner circle.


So much so that when the ex-CM suddenly stepped down, 54-year-old Saini was pitchforked to the hot seat with a sureness that belied the drama of the change at the helm. It helped that BJP was possibly looking for an OBC face and Saini, who has a law degree, fitted the bill.


Saini’s association with Khattar dates to the mid-1990s, when the latter was sent to Haryana on a mission. And just like the now-famous story about then R S S pracharak Khattar taking PM Modi around Haryana on a motorbike years ago, Saini clocked crucial political miles by riding pillion with the ex-CM through most of his political journey.


Saini, who forayed into politics as a member of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in Ambala, contested his first assembly election from Naraingarh in 2009 but lost to Ram Kishan Gujjar of Congress. In 2014, he was elected MLA and made minister of state with independent charge in Khattar’s first term as CM.


In 2019, BJP picked him to contest the Kurukshetra LS seat, a battle in which he defeated Congress’s Nirmal Singh.


Saini’s proximity to Khattar was reinforced when he was appointed Haryana BJP president last Oct. Now, in the middle of a political storm, Khattar’s trusted aide has again stood up to be counted.