I will be Haryana’s CM if..., says BJP's Anil Vij

Amid the neck and neck fight in Haryana, Anil Vij, BJP candidate from Ambala Cantt Assembly seat on Tuesday said that if the high command wants he will become the Chief Minister.

"BJP is leading in the elections and they (Congress) are celebrating because many people in the Congress party want Bhupinder Singh Hooda to lose the elections...I will accept the mandate of the public. If the high command wants, I will be the Chief Minister."

Anil Vij won the Ambala Cantt seat in Haryana, as per the Election Commission. The former home minister, defeated Independent candidate Chitra Sarwara by a margin of 7,277 votes.


Vij has won the Ambala Cantt assembly seat for the seventh time.

In March, Vij was said to be upset with the BJP for not keeping him in the loop when the party decided to replace Khattar as the chief minister and bring Nayab Singh Saini in his place.

He had then said he came to know about it only in the BJP MLAs' meeting here in which Saini's name was announced.

Vij later also did not find a place in the cabinet led by Saini. The senior BJP leader had also kept away from Saini's swearing-in ceremony in March.

In April, while addressing a public gathering in Ambala, Vij, without taking any names, had said, some people have made him a stranger in his party.

"Mana kuch logo ne mujhe meri party mein he begana bana diya hai, parantu kayee baar begane apno say bhi zyada kaam kar jaate hai, (It may be true that some people have made me a stranger in my party, but sometimes strangers do more work than own people)," Vij had then said.

Vij, who held the home portfolio in the Manohar Lal Khattar government, was often at loggerheads with Khattar when he was the CM.

Vij, has in the past maintained that he is a dedicated worker of the Bharatiya Janata Party, but whatever he has to say he says it clearly.