Haryana under ML Khattar: Directionless drift, misplaced priorities

Huge investment on verge of getting scrapped; Jats up in arms; no let-up in crime against women

In the autumn of 2014, when Haryana went to the polls it was the Om Prakash Chautala-led Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) that was expected to come to power. Narendra Modi’s campaign in the state — and the small matter of INLD chief Om Prakash Chautala being in jail for corruption — changed all that. Modi was lavish in his praise for Haryana and its people and mocked the Chautalas fighting the elections from jail, the Robert Vadra-DLF land deals and politics of dynasty and entitlement. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not name its candidate for chief minister and