Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda is an Indian National Congress leader who served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2004 to 2014. 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.
Shri 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 his chairmanship to recommend strategies and action
Shri Bhupinder Singh Hooda was born to Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Hooda and Har devi Hooda at the Sanghi village in Rohtak district of Haryana. His father Ch Ranbir Singh Hooda was a renowned freedom fighter.
An alumnus of Sainik School, Balachadi, Jamnagar, Gujarat and Panjab University, Chandigarh where he completed his Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently 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 constituency 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 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’ Organization; 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 Board’s Employees Unions.
To encourage youngsters to pick up Olympic sports, Shri Hooda announced a cash award for the state athletes who would win medals in any discipline at the London Games.
Ch Bhupinder Singh Hooda married Smt Asha Dahiya in 1976 and has two children Deepender and Anjali. His son Deepender Singh Hooda was the MP of Rohtak from 2004 to 2019.
Ch. Matu Ram Hooda (1865 – 1942) was a freedom fighter, great social reformer, educationist, politician, and Arya Samajist. He was born in Sanghi village in Rohtak district in Haryana. He was born to Ch. Bakhtawar Singh and was the grandson of Ch. Hardhan Singh.
After establishment of Indian National Congress in Mumbai in 1885, the first conference in Rohtak was held on 12 October 1888, in which there were five prominent leaders – Ch. Matu Ram, Ch. Piru Singh, Babu Ram, Torbaz Khan and Samar Chand – all these were the founders of Rohtak Congress. At that time, Ch. Matu Ram was only 23-year-old. He was a forward Jat leader and Rohtak had become a focal point for the spread of the independence movement in Haryana. Ch.Matu Ram was a great educationist and was behind the establishment of several educational institutions in pre-Independence India. He became the first-generation Arya Samajist and struggled to spread it in and around villages of Rohtak district. As a result, is also popularly known as Matu Ram Arya.
Ch Ranbir Singh Hooda (26 November 1914 – 1 February 2009) was an Indian politician from Haryana. He was a member of the Indian National Congress. He served as a minister in undivided Punjab and then in the Haryana government. His 100th birth anniversary celebration was inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee on 27 November 2014.
Born into a Jat family[5] on 26 November 1914, in Sanghi, a small village in Rohtak district of Undivided Punjab (now Haryana), Ranbir Singh Hooda got his initial education at his village school and later at the Gurukul Bhainswal Kalan near Gohana ( Sonipat ) run by the Arya Samaj activist and social reformer, Bhagat Phool Singh. After completing primary education, Ranbir Singh Hooda joined Vaish High School, Rohtak. He completed matriculation in 1933 and joined Government College, Rohtak for higher studies. He passed his FA examination in 1935. Later, he moved to Delhi and graduated from Ramjas College in 1937. He was conferred with an honorary degree of D.Litt. by Kurukshetra University in 2007.
Ranbir Singh Hooda joined the Gandhian army in the 1930s to contribute towards India’s freedom struggle. He was first arrested in 1941 for participating in a Satyagraha movement. He was put behind the bars several times during India’s freedom struggle. In all, he spent three and a half years in rigorous imprisonment and was under house arrest for two years. He was imprisoned in different jails in Rohtak, Ambala, Hisar, Ferozepur, Lahore (Borstal), Lahore (Central), Multan and Sialkot. He remained closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi during the latter’s visits to Rohtak and nearby districts of Punjab.
The Indian National Congress party sent him to the Constituent Assembly in July 1947, largely owing to his contribution to the freedom movement. He was instrumental in the framing of the Indian Constitution and primarily voiced concerns of workers, peasants, and lower-caste people. He was also a member of the Provisional Parliament and served it in 1950–52. He contested the first general election in 1952 from the Rohtak Lok Sabha constituency and won the poll with a huge margin. In the second general elections in 1957, he again successfully contested from his old constituency of Rohtak. In 1962, he was elected to the Punjab assembly. He was inducted into the council of ministers and held the portfolios of Power and Irrigation in 1962–66 and PWD and Health in 1966–67. He is also remembered for his contribution in the creation of the Bhakra Nangal Power Project.
Upon the formation of Haryana as a new state on 1 November 1966, he shifted his political base to Haryana and became a minister. He won the Kiloi assembly seat in a by-election in 1968. He was elected to Rajya Sabha in 1972 and worked for the introduction of pension for former MPs. He remained the deputy leader of the Congress in Rajya Sabha in 1976–77. Ranbir Singh Hooda was the founder general secretary of Bharat Krishak Samaj and the All-India Backward Classes Federation. He remained the working president of the All-India Freedom Fighters Organization till his demise.
Ch Ranbir Singh Hooda holds the record for being a member of seven different houses in India’s democratic history. On 1 February 2011, Indian National Congress President Sonia Gandhi released a postage stamp depicting him.
Continuing the illustrious family legacy Shri Deepender Singh Hooda is an Indian politician and four-term MP from the Indian National Congress, who is the current Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha representing Haryana. He also served three terms as Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha from Rohtak (2005–2019). He is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the Indian National Congress.
In his 15 years as the Rohtak MP, he helped set up an IIM, India’s largest cancer institute at Jhajjar, an IIT extension campus, besides the 5,500-acre IMT, Rohtak which has companies like Maruti Suzuki, Asian Paints, Suzuki Motorcycles and others, attracting an investment of Rs 5,000 crore, besides setting up FDDI and IHM in his constituency. He continues to be engaged in academics and was named a Leader-in-Residence at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington – its Poling Chair of Business and Government.
He is the fourth generation of his family to be in public service: His father Bhupinder Singh Hooda served as the Chief Minister of Haryana for two terms while his grandfather, Ranbir Singh Hooda, was a freedom fighter, a member of the Constituent Assembly, member of the 1st and 2nd Lok Sabha from Rohtak, and Minister in Punjab (when Haryana was part of Punjab) and a member of Rajya Sabha. His great grandfather Choudhary Matu Ram was a social reformer and a freedom fighter who worked closely with Mahatma Gandhi.
Deepender Hooda was the youngest parliamentarian when he entered politics in 2005. . He contested and won the Lok Sabha by-election from Rohtak in October, 2005. He worked in various companies in India and the United States, before being elected to the Lok Sabha in 2005, at the age of 27. He holds a Bachelor of Technology degree, an MBA from Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, where he majored in finance and strategy and a bachelor’s degree in law from Faculty of Law, University of Delhi
He was name World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader (YGL) in the year 2011.
In 2010 he received Bharat Asmita Jana Pratinidhi Shreshta award for the best young exponent of parliamentary practices for his work towards rural development through education and power generation from MIT.
He received the Shresth Sansad Award in 2019
1980 to 1987: Senior Vice-president, Haryana Pradesh Youth Congress, Chairman of Panchayat Samiti Rohtak and the Chairman of Panchayat Parishad of Haryana.
Elected to 10th Lok Sabha from Rohtak seat.
He was re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term) from Rohtak.
1997-2001: President of Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee.
Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term).
Elected to 9th Haryana Vidhan Sabha from Garhi Sampla Kiloi.
2002 to 2004: Leader of Opposition in Haryana Assembly.
Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (4th term) winning by a margin of around 1 Lakh 50 thousand votes.
Elected to 10th Haryana Vidhan Sabha from Garhi Sampla Kiloi.
5 March 2005: Sworn in as Chief Minister of Haryana (1st term).
Elected to 11th Haryana Vidhan Sabha from Garhi Sampla Kiloi.
On 25 October 2009: Sworn in as Chief Minister of Haryana. (2nd Term).
Again elected to Haryana Vidhan Sabha from Garhi Sampla-Kiloi.
2019-2023: Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Assembly
Chairperson, Election Management Committee
