NEW DELHI: Manohar Lal Khattar has been appointed the Housing and City Affairs Minister within the new Union Cupboard of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led authorities. The 70-year-old former Haryana chief minister will substitute Hardeep Singh Puri who has retained the Petroleum and Pure Fuel Ministry within the new authorities.

The Union Housing and City Affairs Ministry is remitted to execute varied tasks together with Modi authorities’s flagship PM Awas Yojna, Swachh Bharat Mission (City) and the bold Central Vista redevelopment plan.

The redevelopment of the Central Vista, the nation’s energy hall, envisages a brand new Parliament constructing, a standard central secretariat, revamping of the three-km Rajpath from the Rashtrapati Bhavan to the India Gate, new workplace and residence of the prime minister, and a brand new vice-president enclave.

Inducted into the Union Cupboard on Sunday, the BJP veteran now’s set to start his new innings as a parliamentarian and a Union Minister.

Khattar joined the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh as a everlasting member in 1977 and stayed with it for 17 years earlier than he was made a member of the BJP in 1994.

In 2014, he grew to become the MLA for the primary time and was tapped to turn out to be the chief minister of Haryana by the BJP. Ten years later, in March 2024, he was changed by his confidante Nayab Singh Saini.

Contesting his first Lok Sabha polls from Karnal, Khattar defeated Congress’s Divyanshu Budhiraja by a formidable margin of over 2.35 lakh votes on this Lok Sabha election.

In response to some accounts, Khattar is taken into account near Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who he labored with within the Nineteen Nineties within the get together organisation.

Khattar, a bachelor, labored for nearly 40 years as an RSS pracharak.

In 1996, Khattar began working with Modi, who was then the BJP in-charge of Haryana.

Coming from an agricultural background, his household arrived in Haryana from Pakistan post-Partition. His household settled at Nindana, a village in Haryana’s Rohtak district. He was born in Nindana in 1954.

In 2014, when the BJP shaped the federal government in Haryana by itself energy for the primary time, Khattar grew to become the state’s first non-Jat chief minister in practically twenty years, fracturing the Jat neighborhood’s longstanding domination of the state’s politics.

On the get together’s transfer to herald Nayab Saini as Haryana’s CM in March this yr, Khattar has maintained that the transfer was not sudden and that he solely had advised Saini’s title to Modi greater than a yr in the past.