Bhupinder Singh Hooda 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.
The Constituent Assembly of India was partly elected and partly nominated body to frame the Constitution of India. It was elected by the Provincial assemblies of British India following the Provincial Assembly elections held in 1946 and nominated by princely states. After India's independence from the British in August 1947,its members served as the nation's 'Provisional Parliament',as well as the Constituent Assembly. It was conceived and created by V. K. Krishna Menon,who first outlined its necessity in 1933 and enshrined it as an Indian National Congress demand.
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 Shiromani Akali Dal,Shiv Sena,Samajwadi Party,Rashtriya Janata Dal,Janata Dal Secular,Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,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'.
Deepender Singh Hooda is an Indian politician. He is a five-term MP from the Indian National Congress. He has been elected as a Member of Parliament,Lok Sabha from Rohtak in 2024. He was also a Member of Parliament,Rajya Sabha from Haryana. He is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee.
Raja Rao Inderjit Singh is an Indian politician who is serving as the 17th Minister of Planning and Minister of Statistics and Programme Implementation since 2024. He is also a member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament. He represents the Gurgaon constituency in Haryana and is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to 18th Lok Sabha from Gurgaon with a majority of 75,079 votes.
Bhagwat Dayal Sharma,popularly known as Panditji,was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Haryana and later Governor of Odisha and Madhya Pradesh from 30 April 1980 to 14 May 1984. He is one of the greatest leaders of Haryana and his legacy is celebrated even today.
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.
Captain Abhimanyu Singh Sindhu is an Indian politician. He was cabinet minister with independent charge of eight departments in the Government of Haryana state in India in the first-ever government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana.
Jitender Singh Malik is a former Member of Parliament of India from Sonepat. Before elected to parliament,he was legislator from Kailana assembly (Gannur) constituency in Haryana. In 2009 general elections,He defeated three times sitting MP Chaudhary Kishan Singh Sangwan of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Chaudhary Birender Singh 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.
Parminder Singh Dhull is an Indian politician of the State of Haryana,India. He remained as Member of Legislative Assembly of Haryana from Julana constituency of Jind District till he resigned as such on 25 June 2019. He contested on Bhartiya Janta Party ticket in 2019 Haryana Assembly Elections but failed to retain his seat. He resigned from Bhartiya Janta Party on 20 October 2020 in protest of the Farmers Bills introduced by Government of India. His father Chaudhary Dal Singh was a former minister and a freedom fighter.
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.
Manohar Lal Khattar is an Indian politician who is serving as the 33rd Minister of Power,40th Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs since 2024. He also served 10th Chief Minister of Haryana from 26 October 2014 till his resignation on 12 March 2024. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former RSS pracharak. He represented the Karnal constituency in the Haryana Legislative Assembly since 2014 till 2024. He was elected to the Lok Sabha,lower house of the Parliament of India from Karnal,Haryana in the 2024 Indian general election. As of June 2024,he serves as the Minister of Power and Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs in the Third Modi Ministry.
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.
Deshbandhu Gupta,also known as Lala Deshbandhu Gupta,was an Indian freedom fighter,politician,and journalist. He served as a member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly,having won the 1937 election representing the Indian National Congress. He was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.
Chaudhary Chand Ram (1923–2015) was an Indian politician and first Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana.
