Had suggested change of guard in Haryana year back to Modi: Ex-CM Manohar Lal Khattar
BJP leader Manohar Lal Khattar on Tuesday said the decision to replace him as the chief minister of Haryana with Nayab Singh Saini was not a sudden one and he had suggested this to Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than a year ago. Khattar said the Congress leaders have been spreading falsehood about the leadership change in Haryana.
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«The reality is when I had served as the chief minister for eight to eight-and-a-half years, I myself told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that in any person's life if he hands over the baton to anyone on his own will there cannot be a matter of greater happiness. I had said this to him about myself more than a year ago,» Khattar said.
«In January (2024), he (PM) told me whether I was firm on what I had said to which I replied in the affirmative,» he added.
Throwing more light on the sequence of events leading to a change of guard in Haryana, Khattar said that there was a programme in Gurugram on March 11 in which Prime Minister Modi had come.
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