Manohar Lal Khattar

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Manohar Lal Khattar ( Hindi मनोहर लाल खट्टर , Panjabi ਮਨੋਹਰ ਲਾਲ ਖਟਰ , * 5. May 1954 in Nidana, Rohtak district , then Punjab today Haryana , India ) is an Indian politician. Since October 26, 2014, he has been Chief Minister of the Indian state of Haryana .

biography

Manohar Lal Khattar was born in a small village in the east of what was then the Indian state of Punjab. He comes from a Punjabi-speaking Hindu family from the Khatri caste that after the partition of India from today to Pakistan belonging to the western part of Punjab had fled to India. His father was a simple farm laborer who also ran a small business on the side. Khattar attended Pandit Neki Ram Sharma Government College in Rohtak and was the first in his family to receive a secondary education. For a short time he contemplated studying medicine and becoming a doctor, and moved to live with relatives in Delhi to attend appropriate preparation courses for the entrance exams. However, he dropped the plan again because the many years of training put him off. Instead, he got into the clothing business, first with his relatives in Delhi and then later as an independent retailer. Khattar joined the Hindu nationalist cadre organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in 1977 . Three years later, in 1980, he committed himself to full-time service in the RSS as pracharak ("worker"), which practically meant the end of his previous profession. After 14 years of service in the RSS, he became RSS general secretary in Haryana in 1994. In the same year he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). From 2000 to 2014 he was general secretary of the BJP in Haryana and chairman of the BJP election committee for the 2014 Lok Sabha election . In the 2014 general election in Haryana, Khattar won constituency 21-Karnal with 82,485 votes against 18,712 votes for the runner-up independent candidate. This was his first application for public office in an election. The BJP won 33.2% of the vote and 47 out of 90 constituencies in this election. Subsequently, Khattar was elected Chief Minister at the head of a BJP sole government. Manohar Lal Khattar is said to have a special bond with Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who is also a longtime RSS member. He has been working with Modi for about 20 years and has fought several election campaigns with him. Khattar was the first chief minister in Haryana in 18 years who was not part of the influential Jat community .

In some Indian press organs, Khattar has been criticized for contentious or conservative statements. For example, in view of the public discussions about more frequent rape, he urged young women to dress “decent” in accordance with Indian traditions in order not to attract the men's gaze inappropriately. These short pieces of clothing are "a western influence". Men and women who practice premarital intercourse are “not on the right track” . On the other hand, his government has avowedly set itself the goal of empowering women in Haryana. It was rated as a success that the gender ratio among newborns (female / male - an indicator in which Haryana came last among all Indian states in the 2011 national census ) improved from 846 to 1,000 to 889 to 1,000 between 2014 and 2016.

Personal

Manohar Lal Khattar is unmarried and has a simple, frugal lifestyle. He has a reputation for being free from corruption and nepotism .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Shibaji Roychoudhury: Manohar Lal Khattar, who blamed women for India's rising rapes, is new Haryana CM. Scroll.in, October 22, 2014, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gyan varma: Manohar Lal Khattar: From cloth merchant to Haryana's first BJP chief minister. livemint.com, October 22, 2014, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  3. ^ Election Results - Full Statistical Reports. Indian Election Commission, accessed on October 3, 2014 (English, election results of all Indian elections to the Lok Sabha and the parliaments of the states since independence).
  4. ↑ a b From RSS pracharak to Haryana CM: Meet Modi loyalist Manohar Lal Khattar. firstpost.com, October 21, 2014, accessed August 22, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Who is Manohar Lal Khattar? IndiaToday.in, October 21, 2014, accessed on August 22, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Panchkula: 'Haryana's child sex ratio improves to 889 girls per 1,000 boys'. The Indian Express, January 7, 2016, accessed August 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Khattar, Manohar Lal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES मनोहर लाल खट्टर, ਮਨੋਹਰ ਲਾਲ ਖਟਰ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 5th 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Nidana, Rohtak District , Haryana , India