| Bhupinder Singh Hooda | |
| Office: | Leader of the Opposition, Haryana Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start: | 4 September 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Abhay Singh Chautala |
| Office2: | 9th Chief Minister of Haryana |
| Term Start2: | 5 March 2005 |
| Term End2: | 26 October 2014 |
| Predecessor2: | Om Prakash Chautala |
| Successor2: | Manohar Lal Khattar |
| Office3: | Member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start5: | February 2000 |
| Term End5: | May 2004 |
| Constituency5: | Kiloi |
| Predecessor5: | Shri Krishan Hooda |
| Successor5: | Shri Krishan Hooda |
| Term Start4: | June 2005 |
| Term End4: | October 2009 |
| Constituency4: | Kiloi |
| Predecessor4: | Shri Krishan Hooda |
| Successor4: | Constituency renamed as Garhi Sampla-Kiloi after delimitation |
| Term Start3: | 22 October 2009 |
| Constituency3: | Garhi Sampla-Kiloi |
| Predecessor3: | Position established |
| Office6: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
| Term Start6: | June 1991 |
| Term End6: | October 1999 |
| Constituency6: | Rohtak |
| Predecessor6: | Devi Lal |
| Successor6: | Inder Singh |
| Term Start7: | May 2004 |
| Term End7: | June 2005 |
| Constituency7: | Rohtak |
| Predecessor7: | Inder Singh |
| Successor7: | Deepender Singh Hooda |
| Birth Date: | 15 September 1947 |
| Birth Place: | Rohtak, East Punjab, India |
| Party: | Indian National Congress (1972 – present) |
| Children: | 2 (including Deepender Singh Hooda) |
| Father: | Ranbir Singh Hooda |
| Alma Mater: | Panjab University (B.A.), Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (LL.B) |
| Source: | http://loksabhaph.nic.in/Members/memberbioprofile.aspx?mpsno=3506&lastls=14 |
| 1Blankname: | Deputy |
| 1Namedata: | Aftab Ahmed |
Bhupinder Singh Hooda (born 15 September 1947)[1] is an Indian National Congress politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014.[2] [3]
When he began a second term in October 2009 after leading the Congress to an election victory, it was the first time since 1972 that a Haryana electorate returned a ruling party back to power. Hooda is also a Member of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana. In 2010, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under Hooda's chairmanship to recommend strategies and action plan for increasing agricultural production and productivity, including long-term policies to ensure sustained agricultural growth.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda was born to Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Hooda and Har devi Hooda at the Sanghi village in Rohtak district of Haryana.[4] His father Ranbir Singh Hooda was a renowned freedom fighter.[5]
He is an alumnus of Sainik School, Balachadi, Jamnagar, Gujarat.[6] He did his B.A. at Panjab University, Chandigarh after which he pursued law from the prestigious Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He started his political career at Youth Congress.
Chaudhry Bhupinder Singh Hooda was elected as a member of parliament from Rohtak Lok Sabha segment for four terms in 1991, 1996, 1998, 2004. He also remained the Leader of Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly from 2001 to 2004. He also served as the President of HPCC (Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee) from 1996 to 2001. In three consecutive Lok Sabha elections of 1991, 96 & 98, he defeated Ch. Devi Lal in electoral battles fought in the Jat heartland of Rohtak in Haryana.He attended international Conferences like World Youth Festival in USSR, World Parliamentary Conference in China, International Conference in USSR as a delegate of AICC and OISCA and International Conferences in Japan and South Korea. Hooda was a vocal supporter for structural reforms within the Congress party and a part of the G23 rebel leaders group. He has been meeting party senior leaders and other G23 leaders to bring about reconciliation.[7]
He is also President, All India Young Farmers' Association, Haryana ; Ex-Member, Market Committee, Rohtak; Director, Bank of India, 1989–92; Secretary, Farmers' Parliamentary Forum, 1991 onwards; Founder-Member and Working President of All India Freedom Fighters' Successors' Organisation; Working President, National Federation Railway Porters, Vendors and Bearers. Elected as a President for the Khadi & Village Industries Commission Employees Union & Patron for the National Khadi & Village Industries Board's Employees Federation – an apex body of all State K&V.I Board's Employees Unions.
To encourage youngsters to pick up Olympic sports, Hooda announced a cash award of Rs 25 million for the state athletes who would win gold medal in any discipline at the London Games. Cash prize money of Rs 15 million and Rs 10 million for silver and bronze medal winners has also been announced.[8] Hooda has come under the scanner of the CBI for alleged misappropriation of funds and scams.[9] In 2019, CBI's preliminary inquiry (PE) has revealed that Hooda and TC Gupta, a 1987 batch IAS officer and the then head of the town and planning department, allegedly hatched a criminal conspiracy with private builders to deliberately notify huge chunks of land in various sectors of Gurgaon for acquisition for public purpose. This led to the landowners selling their lands at throwaway prices to private builders. But the government ended up actually acquiring only a small proportion of these notified land tracts.[10]
Bhupinder Singh Hooda married Asha Dahiya in 1976. He has two children.[11] His son Deepender Singh Hooda was the MP of Rohtak from 2004 to 2019.
| SI No. | Post | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Block Congress Committee, Kiloi, Haryana. | 1972-1977 |
| 2. | 1.) Senior Vice-president, Haryana Pradesh Youth Congress. 2.) Chairman of Panchayat Samiti, Rohtak. 3.) Chairman of Panchayat Parishad of Haryana. | 1980-1987 |
| 3. | President of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee. | 1996-2001 |
| 4. | Chairperson, Election Management Committee. | |
| SI No. | Post | Date Appointed | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Leader of the Opposition | 2002 | 2002-2004 |
| 2. | Chief Minister | 5 March 2005 | 2005-2009 |
| 3. | Chief Minister | 25 October 2009 | 2009-2014 |
| 4. | Leader of the Opposition[12] | 4 September 2019 | Incumbent |
| SI No. | Year | Lok Sabha | Constituency | Party | Votes | Vote share | Margin | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Rohtak | 2,41,235 | 44% | 30,573 | [13] | ||||
| 2. | 1,98,154 | 31.71% | 2,664 | ||||||
| 3. | 2,54,951 | 38.66% | 383 | ||||||
| 4. | 2,22,233 | 35.09% | 1,44,693 | ||||||
| 5. | 3,24,235 | 48.97% | 1,50,435 | ||||||
| SI No. | Year | Assembly | Constituency | Party | Votes | Vote share | Margin | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 9th | Kiloi | 39,513 | 53.48% | 11,958 | [14] | |||
| 2. | 11th | Garhi Sampla Kiloi | 89,849 | 79.81% | 72,100 | [15] | |||
| 3. | 12th | Garhi Sampla Kiloi | 80,693 | 57.31% | 47,185 | ||||
| 4. | 13th | Garhi Sampla Kiloi | 97,755 | 65.82% | 58,312 | ||||
There are many cases filed against him including six CBI cases and several other vigilance department investigations against Hooda underway.[16] Central Bureau of Investigation is investigating several scams, mostly related to illegal land grab, that took place during his rule in Haryana. These investigations include the Gurugram-Manesar IMT land scam, Robert Vadra DLF land grab scam, Gurugram Rajiv Gandhi Trust land grab scam, Sonepat-Kharkhoda IMT land scam case, Garhi Sampla Uddar Gagan land scam, Panchkula-HUDA Industrial plots allotment scam, AJL-National Herald Panchkula land grab scam, Haryana Forestry scam case and Haryana Raxil drug purchase scam. He has been already chargesheeted in the Manesar-Gurugram land scam, while other cases are still under investigation (c. March 2018).[17] [16]
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