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.
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Jaipur: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today claimed that Aam Aadmi Party will be confined to Delhi and its popularity graph will start dipping within six months.“People in Delhi will come to know about
New Delhi: Congress today dismissed as ‘media creation” reports that there was a rift within in Haryana as former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and state party Chief Ashok Tanwar held separate meetings yesterday with
Chandigarh: Attacking the 100-day-old BJP government in Haryana, former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today claimed it was “directionless” and has failed on all fronts after coming to power “accidentally”. “The BJP formed government in
New Delhi: Amidst reports that he was about to form a new political outfit, former Haryana Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said there was no question of his quitting the
Chandigarh: IAS officer Ashok Khemka has sought registration of an FIR after an RTI filed by him found that two pages of a file pertaining to the controversial DLF-Robert Vadra deal are missing from government
Chandigarh: 2014 was an eventful year in Haryana both on the political front and otherwise as BJP captured power relegating Congress and INLD to the fringes while ‘godman' Rampal episode and the separate SGPC issue
New Delhi: Congress Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the 'godman' baba Rampal issue saying the violence has happened because he appointed Mohan Lal Khattar as Chief Minister, who had "no experience in public
Chandigarh: In a first major administrative reshuffle by the newly formed BJP government in Haryana, 26 senior IAS officers were transferred including those considered close to previous chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.26 senior IAS officers
New Delhi: Hours after taking charge as Union minister, former Congress leader Chaudhary Birender Singh today trained his guns on his bete noir Bhupinder Singh Hooda demanding a probe into the cash-for-change of land use
New Delhi: Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil and Kiran Choudhary, known detractors of former Chief Ministers Prithviraj Chavan and Bhupinder Singh Hooda, were today made Leaders of Congress Legislature Party in Maharashtra and Haryana where the party
New Delhi: Congress leader Kumari Selja blamed former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for the party's debacle in the assembly polls, saying he failed to take everyone along.Selja said that the party's central leadership
Chandigarh: Savitri Jindal, the richest woman in the country, lost from the Hisar assembly seat, officials said Sunday.Jindal, who was elected from Hisar in 2005 and 2009 and is a minister in the outgoing Bhupinder
Chandigarh: After a decade-long Congress rule in Haryana, the state may see a change of guard when votes in assembly elections are counted on Saturday. Most exit polls have predicted BJP coming to power for
Chandigarh: As Haryana voted today to elect its new government in a multi-cornered contest, ruling Congress exuded confidence of retaining power in the state for the third consecutive time while BJP, INLD and HJC also
Karnal (Haryana): With former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala back in Delhi's Tihar prison following his surrender on court's order Saturday evening, a no-holds-barred verbal fight has broken out between the ruling Congress and
New Delhi: A war of words erupted today after the EC order that there was no poll code violation by Haryana Government in clearing the land deal involving Robert Vadra with Congress demanding an apology
Nilokheri (Haryana): SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal today said the bond that his party shares with ally INLD was unbreakable and the same would pave the wave for prosperity in Haryana.While campaigning in Nilokheri in
New Delhi: After Election Commission rejected its complaint against Haryana government on Robert Vadra's land deal, BJP today charged the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government with not presenting full facts of the case before the poll
Rohtak: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today called for a “four-coloured” revolution signifying the colours of the Indian tricolour in the area of power and agriculture, marine sector and milk production to take the country forward.Addressing
New Delhi: The Election Commission today received a report from the Haryana poll authorities which it had sought to ascertain whether the clearance given by the state government to a land deal between Robert Vadra
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