Key Highlights
- He had expressed this sentiment earlier as well, when he was fielded from Karnal Lok Sabha constituency in 2019.
- As BJP enjoys a majority in the 90-member Haryana Assembly, Bhatia is set to be elected to the Upper House.
- In 2024, Bhatia, who was the sitting Karnal MP, made way for former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar — fielded by the party from the parliamentary seat.
- Khattar was named BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate on March 13, 2024, after he quit as the chief minister in a major shake-up in the state leadership by the party.
- The sitting MP from Karnal now and a Union minister, he was replaced as the chief minister by Nayab Singh Saini.
