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Elected Hariyana MLA Krishan Lal resigns as Rajya Sabha member
way2barak, 14 Oct : Rajya Sabha Member from Haryana and prominent SC face of the saffron party Krishan Lal Panwar resigned today from the upper house as he has been elected MLA and is eyeing for a cabinet berth, which is to be sworn-in at Panchkula on October 17.
Meanwhile, the party had appointed Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav as central observers for the selection of the new leader of the BJP legislature party in Haryana.
Former minister and six-time MLA Panwar submitted his resignation to Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar in New Delhi on Monday.
He was specially picked up by the party to contest recent assembly polls .Panwar was a minister during the 2014-19 BJP Government led by then-chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar. He was later sent to Rajya Sabha in 2022 by the saffron party in a bid to woo the crucial SC vote bank.
Meanwhile, as per a letter issued by the saffron party’s national general secretary Arun Singh the party had appointed Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav as central observers for the selection of the new leader of the BJP legislature party in Haryana. The appointment of the observers highlights the BJP’s intent to ensure that the selection process for the new Haryana BJP legislature leader is seamless.
Sources say the central observers are scheduled to meet with Haryana’s 48 newly elected BJP legislators on October 16, one day before the oath-taking ceremony in Panchkula
