By IANS,
Chandigarh: The suspense over the next chief minister for Haryana continued through Saturday with the Congress high command in New Delhi taking its time to decide.
Sources in the Congress said party president Sonia Gandhi was consulting various leaders before the name of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader, who will be the next chief minister, was announced.
Though caretaker Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s name continued to be in the front, there was also a speculation about union Minister for Tourism Kumari Selja running for the post.
Selja, a Congress MP from the Ambala, is considered close to the Congress president.
The Congress in Haryana had Friday staked claim before Governor Jagannath Pahadia after it got the support of all seven independent candidates who won the Oct 13 assembly election.
The Congress bagged 40 seats in the 90-member assembly and fell six seats short of a simple majority in the house.
Hooda had led the party government in the state since March 2005 and had got the previous assembly dissolved seven months ahead of schedule to seek early assembly poll.
The Congress wanted to cash on its nine seats out of 10 success in the May Lok Sabha poll.