CM Manohar Lal Khattar failed again in Haryana
Chandigarh: 27th Aug: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has once again failed the state. The mayhem and arson by Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) followers in Panchkula town on Friday, just minutes after the sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted for the rape and sexual exploitation of two female disciples in 2002, which left 36 people dead and nearly 250 others injured, has put Khattar in a politically precarious position on holding on to his chair. Khattar’s name has virtually become synonymous with inept handling of tough situations — be it the violent Jat agitation that left 30 people dead and over 200 injured in February 2016, or the action against self-styled godman Rampal, who remained elusive from the law and even raised an armed private army to defend himself at his ashram near Barwala town in Haryana’s Hisar district in November 2014.
Not only the opposition Congress and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), senior BJP leaders within the ruling party, including some of his ministers too are gunning for his scalp after the DSS mayhem.
When he became the Chief Minister on October 26, 2014, Khattar, a former Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) pracharak, was a political greenhorn. He had never even been a legislator, let alone being a minister or having any administrative experience. Even after three years in office, the BJP central leadership must be thinking of either giving him another chance or finding someone to at least govern the state.
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