Haryana BJP president MP Nayab Singh Saini to be next chief minister

Haryana BJP president and OBC leader Nayab Singh Saini was on Tuesday picked at the next chief minister, hours after Manohar Lal Khattar and his cabinet ministers submitted their resignations.

Saini, who is an MP from Kurukshetra, was unanimously elected as the leader of the state BJP legislature group and will be sworn in later in the day, party MLAs Subhash Sudha and J P Dalal told reporters.