Manohar Lal Khattar was sworn-in as a minister in Narendra Modi 3.0 cabinet on Sunday (June 9).
Khattar won from the Karnal Lok Sabha constituency after defeating Congress's Divyanshu Budhiraja by a margin of over 200,000 votes.
Khattar's political journey commenced in 1977 as he worked full-time as a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker.
He joined the BJP in 1994 and worked as General Secretary of Haryana BJP from 2000 to 2014.
Khattar first contested from the Karnal constituency in the Haryana Legislative Assembly election and was elected in 2014. On October 26, 2014, he assumed the role of Haryana CM. In 2019, he was re-elected as an MLA from the Karnal seat, again securing the CM seat, before stepping down on March 12 this year.
Khattar was born in a Punjabi Hindu family in the Nindana village of Meham tehsil in the Rohtak district.