Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Bhupinder Singh Hooda is the Congress party leader and the former Haryana Chief Minister from 2005 to 2014. He is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Haryana Legislative Assembly and an MLA from the Garhi Sampla-Kiloi constituency. Hooda won the seat three consecutive times after the delimitation process in 2009, 2014, and 2024. He represented the Kiloi seat twice before the delimitation in 2000 and 2005 (bypoll). He lost the seat twice, in 1982 and 1987. In the 2019 Haryana Assembly Elections, Hooda won the seat by defeating Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Satish Nandal with a margin of 58,312 votes. Hooda represented the Rohtak Lok Sabha constituency four times in 1991, 1996, 1998, and 2004. In the 1991 polls, Hooda defeated former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal in Rohtak by 30,573 votes. He again defeated Devi Lal in 1996 and 1998. However, he lost to Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate Inder Singh by a big margin of 1,44,693 votes. Hooda again won the Rohtak seat in 2004 by defeating BJP leader Captain Abhimanyu with a margin of 1,50,435 votes. He is again contesting from the Garhi Sampla-Kiloi constituency in the 2024 Haryana Assembly polls against BJP's Manju Hooda and Jannayak Janta Party's (JJP) Sushila Deshwal.