Manohar Lal Khattar has come a long way from being a cloth merchant to becoming the first BJP chief minister of Harayana. ML Khattar, the 10th and current chief minister of Haryana, was born on May 5, 1954. He was a pracharak of the RSS before joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
After the BJP won the 2014 election for the Haryana Legislative Assembly, he was sworn in for the first time as the state's chief executive on October 26, 2014. On October 27, 2019, he was sworn in for a second time as chief minister after forming an alliance with the Jannayak Janta Party following the 2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election, with Dushyant Chautala serving as his deputy.
Khattar was born into a Punjabi Hindu family in the hamlet of Nindana in the Meham tehsil of Haryana's Rohtak district. Following the partition of India in 1947, his father, Harbans Lal Khattar, moved to the village from the Jhang district of West Punjab. His family initially made their home in the Rohtak district's Banyani hamlet, where they started a farm.
Khattar graduated from Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government College in Rohtak after completing his matriculation (high school senior year). After that, he relocated to Delhi where he maintained a store close to Sadar Bazar while finishing his undergraduate studies at the University of Delhi.
Khattar served as the BJP's organisational general secretary in Haryana from 2000 to 2014. During his time there, the state chapter also launched the publication of the journal Bhajpa Ki Baat in October 2000. For the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, he served as the chairman of the BJP's Haryana Election Campaign Committee. He afterwards joined the National Executive Committee of the BJP.
Khattar was chosen by the BJP to represent the Karnal constituency in the 2014 elections for the Haryana Legislative Assembly. Khattar won his first election by a margin of 63,736 votes, giving the BJP its first electoral victory in Haryana.
According to Khattar, Haryana would hire about 500 female constables and have an all-female police station in every district. Additionally, he created the 24/7 Harsamay portal, which allows anyone to submit an online complaint.
In order to assist keep the police force's employees both physically and psychologically fit, he has also urged that yoga be taught as part of police constable training.
In all of the government offices, Manohar Lal Khattar has implemented a biometric attendance system that will allow for online access to and monitoring of every officer's attendance.
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