{"id":316072,"date":"2019-10-25T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316072"},"modified":"2019-10-25T08:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T08:47:13","slug":"haryana-independents-extend-support-to-bjp-manohar-lal-khattar-ready-to-stake-claim-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/haryana-independents-extend-support-to-bjp-manohar-lal-khattar-ready-to-stake-claim-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana: Independents extend support to BJP; Manohar Lal Khattar ready to stake claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316073 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/khattar-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"723\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/khattar-1.jpg 723w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/khattar-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/khattar-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/khattar-1-696x495.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/khattar-1-591x420.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/>A day after the Haryana Assembly Election results were declared, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making all the attempts to retain power in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP won 40 seats in the 90-member Assembly in Haryana\u00a0and fell six short of the halfway mark needed to form the next government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today morning flew to New Delhi to meet party Working President JP Nadda at his residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, six Independent MLAs were also present at Nadda\u2019s residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP is seeking the support of independent candidates to stake claim to form the next government in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Notably, both the BJP and the Congress are making efforts to win the support of the\u00a0Independents and other parties in order to get the number required to form the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress won 31 seats, Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) 10 and others registered 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahead of polls, the BJP had predicted that it would cross 75 seats this time. But out of 10 only two of the ministers make it through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had appealed to non-BJP outfits to join hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll non- BJP parties to come together to honor this anti- BJP mandate and form an alternative government,\u201d Hooda had said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after the Haryana Assembly Election results were declared, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making all the attempts to retain power in the state. The BJP won 40 seats in the 90-member Assembly in Haryana\u00a0and fell six short of the halfway mark needed to form the next government. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2110,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[338,1351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316074,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316072\/revisions\/316074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}