Bhupinder Singh Hooda | |
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Leader of the Opposition, Haryana Legislative Assembly | |
In office 2 November 2019 –12 September 2024 | |
Deputy | Aftab Ahmed |
Preceded by | himself |
In office 4 September 2019 –27 October 2019 | |
Preceded by | Abhay Singh Chautala |
Succeeded by | himself |
In office 2001–2004 | |
Preceded by | Om Prakash Chautala |
Succeeded by | Om Prakash Chautala |
9th Chief Minister of Haryana | |
In office 5 March 2005 –26 October 2014 | |
Preceded by | Om Prakash Chautala |
Succeeded by | Manohar Lal Khattar |
Member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly | |
Assumed office 22 October 2009 | |
Preceded by | Position established Himself as MLA of Kiloi |
Constituency | Garhi Sampla-Kiloi |
In office June 2005 –October 2009 | |
Preceded by | Krishan Hooda |
Succeeded by | Constituency renamed as Garhi Sampla-Kiloi after delimitation |
Constituency | Kiloi |
In office February 2000 –May 2004 | |
Preceded by | Krishan Hooda |
Succeeded by | Krishan Hooda |
Constituency | Kiloi |
Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha | |
In office June 1991 –October 1999 | |
Preceded by | Devi Lal |
Succeeded by | Inder Singh |
Constituency | Rohtak |
In office May 2004 –June 2005 | |
Preceded by | Inder Singh |
Succeeded by | Deepender Singh Hooda |
Constituency | Rohtak |
Personal details | |
Born | Rohtak,East Punjab,India (present-day Haryana) | 15 September 1947
Political party | Indian National Congress (1972–present) |
Spouse | Asha Dahiya (m. 1976) |
Children | 2 (including Deepender Singh Hooda) |
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Alma mater | Panjab University (B.A.), Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (LL.B) |
Occupation | Politician |
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Bhupinder Singh Hooda (born 15 September 1947) [1] is an Indian National Congress politician, who has served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. He was the Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly from 2019 to 2024. [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] [5] His father Ranbir Singh Hooda was a renowned freedom fighter. [5]
He is an alumnus of Sainik School, Kunjpura, Karnal, Haryana and 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. [7] 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. [8]
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. [9] Hooda has come under the scanner of the CBI for alleged misappropriation of funds and scams. [10] 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. [11]
Bhupinder Singh Hooda married Asha Dahiya in 1976. He has two children. [12] His son Deepender Singh Hooda is the MP of Rohtak.
SI No. | Post | Tenure |
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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. | Incumbent |
SI No. | Post | Date Appointed | Tenure |
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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 [13] | 4 September 2019 | Incumbent |
SI No. | Year | Lok Sabha | Constituency | Party | Votes | Vote share | Margin | Result | |
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1. | 1991 | 10th | Rohtak | Indian National Congress | 2,41,235 | 44% | 30,573 | Won [14] | |
2. | 1996 | 11th | Rohtak | Indian National Congress | 1,98,154 | 31.71% | 2,664 | Won [14] | |
3. | 1998 | 12th | Rohtak | Indian National Congress | 2,54,951 | 38.66% | 383 | Won [14] | |
4. | 1999 | 13th | Rohtak | Indian National Congress | 2,22,233 | 35.09% | 1,44,693 | Lost [14] | |
5. | 2004 | 14th | Rohtak | Indian National Congress | 3,24,235 | 48.97% | 1,50,435 | Won [14] | |
6. | 2019 | 17th | Sonipat | Indian National Congress | 4,22,800 | 37.43% | 1,64,864 | Lost |
SI No. | Year | Assembly | Constituency | Party | Votes | Vote share | Margin | Result | |
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1. | 1982 | 6th | Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 15,240 | 32.16% | 4,553 | Lost | |
2. | 1987 | 7th | Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 18,687 | 33.32% | 15,023 | Lost | |
3. | 2000 | 10th | Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 39,513 | 53.48% | 11,958 | Won [15] | |
4. | 2005 bye-election | 11th | Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 1,06,698 | 96.68% | 1,03,635 | Won | |
5. | 2009 | 12th | Garhi Sampla Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 89,849 | 79.77% | 72,100 | Won [15] | |
6. | 2014 | 13th | Garhi Sampla Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 80,693 | 57.28% | 47,185 | Won | |
7. | 2019 | 14th | Garhi Sampla Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 97,755 | 65.82% | 58,312 | Won | |
8. | 2024 | 15th | Garhi Sampla Kiloi | Indian National Congress | 1,08,539 | 72.72% | 71,465 | Won |
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]
Ranbir Singh Hooda was an Indian freedom fighter, parliamentarian and administrator from Haryana. He is known for taking up the cause of poor and backward people and peasants. He actively participated in the freedom struggle, and was jailed several times. He served as the Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha as well as Rajya Sabha. He holds a national record of having remained a member of seven different Houses and it is recorded in Limca book of Records.
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AJL-National Herald Panchkula land grab scam case, allegedly against Bhupinder Singh Hooda currently in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, is under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED). This case pertains to Hooda's alleged role for misusing his position as then Chief Minister of Haryana to cause wrongful gains to the Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and corresponding loss to the Government of Haryana, by illegally allotting a government plot of land worth several crores rupees (billions) to AJL for INR 59 lakh. Then Chief Minister, Hooda, was also the chairman of HUDA, a government entity which re-allotted the plot to AJL in 2005 in violations of rules and against the advice of the HUDA officials. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar's BJP government of Haryana transferred the case to CBI, and CBI filed the FIR in April 2016. CBI booked Hooda for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating and misuse of official position by public servants. AJL, which also owns National Herald, is controlled by the Indian National Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi among others.
Gurugram-Manesar Industrial Model Township land grab scam case pertains to the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and 33 others for the Manesar Industrial Model Township land acquisition scam. This scam resulted in INR1500 crore loss to the farmers of Manesar and neighbouring village in Gurugram district whose 688 acre land was being acquired at a low rate for "public purpose". This land was later licensed to real estate companies after granting them out of term favours and concessions. Private builders grabbed 400 acres land from farmers at throwaway price based on the threat of acquisition by the government. Once this land was bought by the builders, Hooda government released this land from the acquisition process in the favor of builders instead of the original owners. Market value of this 400 acre land was nearly INR4 crore per acre or total INR1600 crore, which was acquired by the builders at only INR100 crore, causing a loss of INR1500 crore to innocent farmer owners of Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula villages.
The Rohtak-Garhi Sampla Uddar Gagan Model Township land grab case pertains to illegal acquisition and licensing of 850.88 acres land under Bhupinder Singh Hooda's rule as the Chief Minister of Haryana. Hooda acquired land from illiterate poor farmers at a throwaway prices in the name of "public interest" and later licensed this land to builders by granting them out-of-turn favors, which resulted in exponential increase in the land value, causing gains to big builders. HUDA issued notification on 11 April 2002 for acquiring 850.88 acres land for residential and commercial development in Sector 27-28 of Rohtak However, which was later reduced to acquire 441.11 acre on 8 April 2003. A private builder, Uddar Gagan Properties Limited, was granted license by Hooda' government to develop a colony across 280 acres of the released land [excluded from government acquisition], thus accruing illegal gains to private middlemen. HUDA issued notification on 11 April 2002 for acquiring 850.88 acres land for residential and commercial development in Sector 27-28 of Rohtak However, which was later reduced to acquire 441.11 acre on 8 April 2003. A private builder, Uddar Gagan Properties Limited, was granted license by Hooda' government to develop a colony across 280 acres of the released land [excluded from government acquisition], thus accruing illegal gains to private middlemen. Uddar Gagan is owned by Zee.
Sonepat-Kharkhoda Industrial Model Township land case being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Bhupinder Singh Hooda. This under-investigation scam pertains to acquisition of 700 acre land in 3 villages near Kharkhoda in Sonepat district for the Industrial Model Township.. Punjab and Haryana High Court in March 2013 and the Supreme Court of India in May 2016 had cancelled the government's decision to release land to the private builder. Two senior officials in then Chief Minister Hooda's office were indicted for allegedly favouring the developers. Subsequently, in 2018 the Government of Haryana referred the case to CBI to investigate the against Hooda and others.
Haryana Raxil drug purchase scam case is a case under investigation by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against Bhupinder Singh Hooda for the illegal purchase of Raxil fungicide which resulted in INR80 crore loss to the government. This scam, initially exposed by Ashok Khemka, is also pending in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Haryana Forestry scam case is a multi-crore fake plantation scam allegedly involving Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kiran Chaudhary and others where government money was embezzled. In 2009, this scam was exposed by the whistleblower, Sanjiv Chaturvedi, Ramon Magsaysay Award-winner Indian Forest Service officer with then Government of Haryana, who filed a case in September 2012 to seek Supreme Court's instructions to CBI to investigate the case. Earlier, Haryana Government had suspended him in 2007 for acting against illegal felling of trees and poaching in Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary, but his suspension was revoked by the President in 2008 and the chargesheet was overturned in 2011 on an appeal against the decision of Haryana government. An inquiry committee of the Ministry of Environment & Forest (MoEF) found Chaturvedi's allegations against Haryana government true, preferred an inquiry by Central Vigilance Commission and by CBI into dubious role of certain highly placed politicians and civil servants. CBI, in its reply to CVC, found Chaturvedi's allegations against then Haryana Government creditable enough for an independent inquiry. As per the rules, CBI can not undertake suo motu investigation, only state government, high court or supreme court can ask CBI for it.
DLF land grab case is a case related to 50 acre land grab in 2013 in Amipur village of Haryana during the Congress' Bhupinder Singh Hooda government, for which Robert Vadra, Hooda and DLF are being investigated by the CBI. Hooda's generosity towards land sharks and builders caused huge losses to farmers and Haryana Government. Consequently, there are Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiries and court cases against him related to shady land deals. Those deals include the allotment of a highly subsidised land and change in land use license for his relatives and influential friends connected to Indian National Congress, such Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. Jitesh Vadra made illegal gains of over INR50 crore from this land deal within few months in 2008. CBI has filed an 80,000 page long chargesheet in the court related to this case and Manesar land scam case.
Gurugram Rajiv Gandhi Trust land grab case against Robert Vadra and Bhupinder Singh Hooda is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as per Supreme Court of India's order. In the Gurugram Rajiv Gandhi Trust land grab scam between 2004 and 2014, then Government of Haryana administration of Indian National Congress's Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, had handed over panchayat land to the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in the name of public interest use, resulting in this trust being sued by the gram panchayat in Punjab and Haryana High Court against the land grabbing of the Gandhi family by the Hooda government. Then Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. who also held the charge of Panchayat department at that time, had approved the grant of 5.3 acre panchayat land to Rajiv Gandhi Trust for 33 years at a rate of Rs 3 lakh per acre in January 2010, trust applied for the change of land use on 3 December 2010, which was approved on the same day.
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