Manohar Lal Khattar Sworn-In As Haryana Chief Minister

PANCHKULA, INDIA - OCTOBER 26: Parkash Singh Badal, Punjab chief minister, Anandiben Patel, CM Gujrat, Raman Singh, CM Chhattisgarh, Sushma Swaraj, Union minister of External Affairs, L.K. Advani, Senior BJP leader, Narendera Modi, Prime minister of India, Amit Shah, President of BJP, Rajnath Singh Union home minister, Venkaiah Naidu, Union minister, Rameshwar, RSS Parcharak, Vasundhara Raje Scindia, CM Rajasthan , Murli Manohar Joshi, Senior BJP leader and Shivraj Singh Chauhan, CM Madhya Pradesh during the swearing-in-ceremony of Manohar Lal Khattar on October 26, 2014 in Panchkula, India. Haryana governor Kaptan Singh Solanki administered the oath of office and secrecy to Khattar at the Mela Ground in Sector 5 of Panchkula town, adjoining Chandigarh. Khattar is the 10th chief minister of the state, which was created November 1, 1966. It is after 18 years that a non-Jat was sworn in as the Haryana chief minister. Before Khattar, the last non-Jat CM was Bhajan Lal, a Bishnoi. He had been in power from 1991 to 1996. The BJP had scripted history in the recently held Haryana assembly elections, winning 47 of the 90 seats in the state that helped the party form the government on its own. The party's vote share, too, had galloped from 9% to 33%. (Photo by Sanjeev Sharma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)