Haryana floor test | CM Nayab Singh Saini moves confidence motion in Assembly

March 13, 2024 10:50 am | Updated 11:58 am IST

Haryana State BJP president and MP Nayab Singh Saini, who was sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Haryana, moved the confidence motion during a special State Assembly session on March 13 and is set to face a floor test.

The Speaker fixed two hours for discussing the motion. Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) MLAs Devender Singh Babli, Ram Kumar Gautam, Ishwar Singh, Ram Niwas and Jogi Ram Sihag left the House when the issue of trust vote was taken up.

The JJP had issued a three-line whip requesting its 10 MLAs to “remain positively absent during voting on Confidence Motion” in Haryana Assembly.

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The BJP named Nayab Singh Saini as Haryana’s new Chief Minister on Tuesday, hours after the surprise resignation of Manohar Lal Khattar from the post along with his Cabinet Ministers. The BJP appears to be comfortably placed in Haryana even without the JJP support.

Mr. Saini said that the BJP-led government in the State has the support of a total of 48 MLAs adding that the Speaker has been urged to conduct the floor test on March 13.

“I want to thank PM Modi, party president J.P. Nadda, Union HM Amit Shah, and other senior leaders of the party for giving me this responsibility. We will work for the development of the State. We have asked the Speaker to conduct the floor test tomorrow at around 11 a.m., in the Vidhan Sabha. We have informed the Governor about the support of 48 MLAs,” Chief Minister Saini said.

Praising former Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said, ”Our newly-formed Cabinet wants to thank former CM Manohar Lal Khattar. He has given Haryana a new direction and has given the best example of good governance. He did development work in the State without any discrimination.”

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In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won all 10 parliamentary seats while JJP, which had contested the elections in alliance with AAP, could not put up a fight on 7 seats it contested.

The BJP has 41 MLAs in the 90-member House, in which the majority mark is set at 46.

(With agency inputs)