Devi Lal,also known as Chaudhary Devi Lal,was an Indian statesman and politician who served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and from 1990 to 1991. Lal emerged as farmer leader from the state of Haryana,and served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 1977 to 1979 and then from 1987 to 1989. He was the founder of Indian National Lok Dal. He was popularly known as Tau,meaning uncle.
Although India is a parliamentary democracy,the country's politics has become dynastic or with high level of nepotism,possibly due to the absence of party organizations,independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party,or centralized financing of elections. The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national,state,regional,and district level. The Nehru–Gandhi family has produced three Indian prime ministers,and family members have largely led the Congress party since 1978. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also has several dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties,other national and regional parties such as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK),Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Kerala Congress,Jammu &Kashmir National Conference,Indian Union Muslim League,AIMIM,and the Nationalist Congress Party are all dominated by families,mostly those of the party founders.
Bansi Lal Legha,also known as Chaudhary Bansi Lal, was an Indian politician and independence activist,who served as the Minister of Defence of India and three-time Chief Minister of Haryana. He is also known as the 'architect of modern Haryana'.
Bhajan Lal was a politician and three-time chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana. He became the Chief Minister for the first time in 1979,was re-elected in 1982,and became the chief minister for the third time by winning the elections in 1991. He also served as the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Environment and Forests in the Rajiv Gandhi government.
Avtar Singh Bhadana is an Indian politician from Faridabad in Haryana. He is a former Minister in Haryana,former MP and former MLA of Uttar Pradesh representing the Meerapur Assembly constituency as a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He has formerly been a member of the Lok Sabha for 4 terms.
Kuldeep Bishnoi is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He served as fourth-time member of Haryana Legislative Assembly from Adampur in the Hisar (city) of Haryana. He was also a member of Congress Central Working Committee (CWC). Earlier in 2007,Bishnoi had founded a new party,Haryana Janhit Congress,a breakaway faction of Indian National Congress.
Dharma Vira OBE,ICS was an Indian civil servant and politician who served as the governor of Punjab,Haryana,West Bengal and Karnataka. Vira also served as a Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India.
Sampat Singh Budania is a former Finance Minister of Haryana,India. As a Janata Party candidate,he was elected to the Haryana Legislative Assembly from the Bhattu Kalan constituency in 1982 and has been re-elected on five occasions. He was leader of the opposition from 1991 to 1996. His six election successes made him the most senior Indian National Congress legislator in 12th Haryana assembly. He has held many important portfolios in state government as minister.
Randeep Singh Surjewala is an Indian politician from Haryana and a member of Indian National Congress party. He was an MLA in the Haryana state legislature until 2019 and a former minister. He held water supply and sanitation,parliamentary affairs,electronics and information technology,science and technology and public works as a minister in Haryana cabinet. In 2005,he was given the responsibility of Transport and Parliamentary Affairs and thus became the youngest minister in Haryana. He defeated Om Prakash Chautala in 1996 and 2005. As of December 2017,Surjewala is one of the official spokespersons of Indian National Congress party,and as of September 2021,is a General Secretary of the Indian National Congress and Party in-charge for Karnataka. In the biennial elections of the Rajya Sabha for the State of Rajasthan,held on 10 June 2022,Mr. Surjewala was elected as a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha,with his term to start on 5 July 2022.
Rao Narbir Singh is a politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is an active social and political reformer. He was Cabinet Minister (2014–19) in BJP Government,Government of Haryana for Department of Public Works (B&R),He threaHaryana and Department of Public Health Engineering,Haryana. He won as BJP candidate from Badshahpur Assembly constituency during the 2014 Haryana Legislative Assembly election.
Ram Bilas Sharma is an Indian former Cabinet Minister in Bharatiya Janata Party's Government of Haryana,and former education minister and politician who has represented the Mahendragarh constituency as an MLA in the northern state of Haryana five times.
Chaudhary Birender Singh Sheokand is a senior Indian political leader and a well-known face in Indian Politics. He lately served as Minister of Rural Development,Panchayati Raj,Sanitation &Drinking Water from 2014 to 2016 and later as the Union Minister of Steel from 2016 to 2019 in the Narendra Modi led NDA Government in India.
Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav,known with the honorific "Sher-e-Bihar",also known as Ramlakhan Babu,was an Indian freedom fighter,educationist,social reformer and politician. The half a century long political journey of Ramlakhan Babu,which started in post-independence era as a member of the Zilla Parishad in 1947,reached the pinnacle of becoming a Union Minister in the Central Government in 1994.He was elected to the 10th Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from the Arrah,Bihar in 1991 as a member of the Janata Dal but joined the Congress in controversial circumstances which helped save Narasimha Rao Government in the 28 July 1993 no confidence vote. He was the Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers in the Narasimha Rao Government.
This is the alphabetical categorised list of statewide,regional and local political families involved in the politics and various elections of Haryana state of India at state and national level.
Krishan Pal Gurjar is an Indian politician and is the present Minister of State of Power and Heavy Industries. As a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha,he represents the Faridabad constituency in the state of Haryana. He won this seat in the 2014 Indian general election as a BJP candidate by a margin of 4,66,873 votes and he won election with margin of over 6 lakh in 2019 from Faridabad constituency. In August 2014 he also inaugurated Manjhawli bridge which is his dream project. In March 2024,he was re-fielded as the BJP candidate for the Faridabad constituency in the 2024 General Elections.
Babu Mool Chand Jain,often referred to as "Gandhi of Haryana",- a Gandhian who was a member of the Congress Party,Vishal Haryana Party,Janata Party,Lok Dal and then Haryana Vikas Party at different times. He was a freedom fighter in the Indian independence movement,parliamentarian,lawyer,Satyagrahi social activist,and Indian statesman who also served as Excise &Taxation and Public Works Department Minister in Joint Punjab as well as Finance Minister,Deputy Chairman.
Ranjit Singh Chautala is a politician and businessman from the Indian state of Haryana. Elected to the Haryana Legislative Assembly and the Rajya Sabha,he has also served in ministerial posts. Previously a member of the Indian National Lok Dal,the Janata Dal,the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party,he won the seat of Rania in the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections as an independent. Following the election,along with his grandnephew Dushyant Chautala,he supported the BJP to secure a majority and entered the Second Manohar Lal Khattar ministry with three portfolios:New and Renewable Energy,Power and Jails.
Udai Bhan is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress. He is the incumbent president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee. He is former four-time elected Member of Haryana's Legislative Assembly (MLA). He represented Haryana's Hodal constituency from 2014 to 2019. He previously also represented the former constituency of Hassanpur in 1987,2000,2005.
Chaudhary Tayyab Husain was an Indian politician,who served as a Member of Parliament from Gurgaon and Faridabad in the Lok Sabha. He also served as the Minister of Agriculture of Rajasthan,Home Minister of Haryana and Minister of State for Health of Punjab.
