Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini of Haryana dealt an important setback on Tuesday when three Independent MLAs declared they would no longer be supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and would instead be supporting the Congress. The current administration now only has a minority in the state assembly as a result of this action.
The government of Nayab Singh Saini, which was previously supported by two other Independent MLAs, is currently unable to secure a majority in the 90-member Haryana assembly, which currently has 88 members.
The Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) has ten MLAs in the Haryana assembly, whereas the Congress has thirty and the BJP has forty. In the presence of state Congress president Udai Bhan and Leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda, the Independent MLAs—Sombir Sangwan (Dadri), Randhir Singh Gollen (Pundri), and Dharampal Gonder (Nilokheri)—made their announcement at a press conference in Rohtak.
March saw the JJP pull out of the coalition government, and lately, a few of its MLAs made suggestions that they would provide the BJP their support. But, denouncing the current administration as “anti-people,” Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanded the resignation of the government and proposed enforcing presidential rule followed by elections.
Leader of the JJP Digvijay Singh Chautala asked Hooda to act to remove the administration, pointing out that the public no longer trusted it. The Congress attested to the fact that the three MLAs had formally withdrawn their support for the administration in letters they had already written to the governor.
Dharampal Gonder gave a number of reasons for their decision to rescind funding, including concerns about farmers, inflation, and unemployment. Udai Bhan said that the Nayab Singh Saini government is now in the minority and that the Chief Minister should step down right away due to the JJP and Independents’ loss of support.
October is the planned month for the Haryana assembly elections. At present, the Independent MLAs number seven, the JJP has ten, and the BJP has forty MLAs. The Haryana Lokhit Party (HLP) and the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) each have one MLA, compared to the Congress’ thirty MLAs.
With no party controlling a majority in the assembly, Haryana is on the verge of a hung parliament. According to expectations, the governor would extend an invitation to the head of the largest party, currently the BJP, to form a government for ten days. The party has the chance to get other parties’ support during this time. In the event of a failure, the governor has the authority to dissolve the state legislature and call new elections.