After its impressive comeback in Haryana winning seven out of 10 lok Sabha seats in the elections, the State BJP is likely to get two ministerial berths in Narendra Modi’s Cabinet that would be formed in the next couple of days.
Rattan lal Kataria, MP from Ambala and Rao Inderjit Singh, MP from Gurgaon constituency, who defeated their strong rival candidates are expected to get the reward of Cabinet Ministries for their applaudable contribution in the recently concluded elections.
Kataria defeated his rival Congress candidate Raj Kumar Balmiki with the margin of 340,074 votes. He got 612,121 votes against Balmiki’s 272,047 votes in the lok Sabha elections.
Similarly, BJP’s Rao Inderjit Singh from Gurgaon lok Sabha constituency had defeated not only an Indian National lok Dal’s strong contender Zakir Hussain with margin of 2,71,120 votes but also gave tough fight to other runners-up, including Congress candidate Rao Dharam Pal and Aam Aadmi Party’s senior leader Yogendra Yadav, who couldn’t even save his security deposits.
Rao secured 6,48,586 votes while Zakir got 3,77,466 votes.While talking to The Pioneer, Anil Vij, BJP legislature from Ambala said, “The MPs from Haryana deserve Cabinet berth. Moreover, it is not a new thing. Even in the past, every party, whether BJP or Congress, had given two ministerial berths to the MPs from Haryana.”
“Being MlA from Ambala, I have strongly recommended the name of Rattan lal Kataria to the BJP high command for cabinet in the Modi Government,” asserted Vij.
According to sources, journalist turned politician from Karnal constituency, Ashwani Kumar Chopra, is also in the queue for a berth in Modi’s cabinet. Chopra defeated Congress’ Arvind Sharma on Karnal lok Sabha seat, which is considered as ‘Brahmin’ seat with margin of 360147 votes in the elections.
The BJP’s parliamentary board will meet on May 20 to formally elect Narendra Modi as its leader. All the newly elected members of Parliament from Haryana, all MlAs, officer bearers and complete state leadership have left for Delhi to be present on the occasion.