Former BJP President of Haryana unit, OP Dhankar, is a key Jat leader in the state and has previously served as a former minister in the Manohar Lal Khattar government. The 63-year-old leader will contest the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections from Badli seat. 

 

After 2014 victory, Dhankar lost his Badli Assembly seat to Congress rival Kuldeep Vats in the 2019 elections. Ahead of this year polls, he was replaced as the BJP Haryana president by Nayab Singh Saini, who is now the chief minister of Haryana. Dhankar's role is central to BJP's politics in Haryana as the Jat community makes up