Haryana CM Khattar & Cabinet may resign today after cracks appear in JJP-BJP alliance

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Manohar Lal Khattar and his Cabinet are likely to tender their resignation today with the alliance between Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state on the verge of a split.

Union Minister Arjun Munda and BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh are currently heading to Chandigarh as observers.

Assembly elections were last held in the state in October 2019 where the BJP fell short of a simple majority winning 40 of the 90 assembly seats and later forged a post-poll alliance with the JJP, which has 10 MLAs. JJP President and co-founder Dushyant Chautala was named the Deputy Chief Minister.

Chautala on March 11 held seat-sharing talks with BJP chief JP Nadda. BJP had bagged all ten Lok Sabha seats during the 2019 General Elections. Sources told ET that the BJP's Haryana leadership was not in favour of leaving any seat for its ally JJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Sources told ET that JJP was demanding two Lok Sabha seats.

(More to come)