Nayab Singh Saini oath-taking LIVE: Haryana CM to take oath shortly, PM Modi, Shah to be present

Ahead of the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand and close on the heels of the Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir polls, the National Democratic Alliance Chief Ministers’ Council meeting culminated in Chandigarh today (October 17). Chief ministers and deputy chief ministers of the BJP-led NDA attended the conclave to deliberate on development issues, the ‘Amrit Mahotsav’ of the Constitution and the 50th anniversary year of the attempt to murder democracy, which is a reference to the Emergency imposed in 1975. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and JP Nadda, who is also the BJP president, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, two Deputy CMs Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar, Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Goa CM Pramod Sawant attended the meeting.