The party seems to have done a fine balancing task by inducting Ram Bilas Sharma from Mahendergarh, Rao Narbir Singh from Badshapur and Vikram Thekedar from Kosli.
While Sharma was one of the key contenders for the CM's post, Thekedar is known as a loyalist of Gurgaon MP Rao Inderjit Singh. Sources said the party that came to power for the first time preferred to keep Narbir in the cabinet considering his experience. He has twice previously been a minister.
Accommodating leaders from Ahirwal is an indication of BJP respecting the mandate that people of this region gave to the party, said state BJP spokesperson Kunwar Surajpal. BJP won 18 seats in south Haryana, 13 of them from Ahirwal.
Some state BJP leaders TOI spoke were optimistic that this would go a long way towards consolidating the party's position in the region.
They are hopeful of some representation from Faridabad in future, where BJP didn't do so well, winning only three seats.
Sharma, currently the state BJP chief under whom the party won seven of the eight seats it contested in the recent Lok Sabha polls, is also a former pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
His association with BJP is four decades old. Sharma was education minister in the successive governments of Chaudhary Bansi Lal and Om Prakash Chautala. Thekedar is a first- time MLA from Kosli in Rewari district.
Narbir, the MLA from Badhshapur, had held the portfolios of home minister and of transport, food and supply and cooperation. He had become the youngest legislator in the country to occupy the office of state home minister at the age of 26 years in the Devi Lal regime in 1987.
The Jat leaders in the ministry are Captain Abhimanyu and Om Prakash Dhankar. The ministry, which was sworn in on Sunday, gives representation to nine of the 21 districts of Haryana - Karnal, Hissar, Jhajjar, Ambala, Gurgaon, Sonipat, Rewari, Mahendargarh and Kurukshetra. Among the ones left out are the Jat-dominated districts of Jind and Rohtak as well as Sirsa, Bhiwani, Faridabad, Panchkula and Yamunanagar.
Khattar is expected to expand his ministry soon as he can have a maximum of 14 ministers, 15% of the 90-member state assembly. The 60-year-old chief minister has also included a number of young faces in his cabinet, the youngest of whom is Kavita Jain, the only woman MLA to take oath on Sunday and the youngest minister at 37 years.
Thekedar (44), Abhimanyu (46) and Krishan Kumar Bedi (47) are the other leaders below 50 in the ministry. All the 10 ministers are well-qualified, being at least a graduate or holding professional degrees, including in law and education.
One of tallest leaders of the BJP in the state, Sharma was born in Rathiwas village near Mahendragarh in 1949. He initially worked as a professor but became politically active while opposing the Emergency (June 25, 1975 - March 21, 1977) and joined BJP. He has been to jail as a political prisoner. He had a steep political rise till the year 2000 and won four straight Assembly poll contests from Mahendergarh. But in 2000, he lost from two seats - Ballabhgarh and Mahendergarh - as an INLD-BJP candidate.
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