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	'''Bhupinder Singh Hooda''' (born 15 September 1947) 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.		'''Bhupinder Singh Hooda''' (born 15 September 1947){{citation needed\|date=September 2021}} 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.

	When he began a second term in [[2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election\|October 2009]] after leading the [[Indian National Congress\|Congress]] to an election victory, it was the first time since 1972 that a Haryana electorate returned a ruling party back to power. Hooda is also a Member of the Bar Council of [[Punjab, India\|Punjab]] and Haryana. In 2010, Indian Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under Hooda's chairmanship to recommend strategies and action plan for increasing agricultural production and productivity, including long-term policies to ensure sustained agricultural growth.		When he began a second term in [[2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election\|October 2009]] after leading the [[Indian National Congress\|Congress]] to an election victory, it was the first time since 1972 that a Haryana electorate returned a ruling party back to power. Hooda is also a Member of the Bar Council of [[Punjab, India\|Punjab]] and Haryana. In 2010, Indian Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under Hooda's chairmanship to recommend strategies and action plan for increasing agricultural production and productivity, including long-term policies to ensure sustained agricultural growth.
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	\| birth_place = ~~Sanghi,~~ [[Rohtak district\|Rohtak]], [[East Punjab]], India		\| birth_place = [[Rohtak district\|Rohtak]], [[East Punjab]], [[India]]
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	==Political career==		==Political career==
	Chaudhry Bhupinder Singh Hooda was elected as a [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha\|member of parliament]] from [[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Rohtak Lok Sabha]] segment for four terms in 1991, 1996, 1998, 2004. He also remained the Leader of Opposition in Haryana's 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.		Chaudhry Bhupinder Singh Hooda was elected as a [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha\|member of parliament]] from [[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)\|Rohtak Lok Sabha]] segment 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 attended international Conferences like World Youth Festival in USSR, World Parliamentary Conference in China, International Conference in USSR as a delegate of AICC and OISCA and International Conferences in Japan and South Korea.		He attended international Conferences like World Youth Festival in USSR, World Parliamentary Conference in China, International Conference in USSR as a delegate of AICC and OISCA and International Conferences in Japan and South Korea.

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{{short description|Indian politician and Former Chief Minister of Haryana}}
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| name = Bhupinder Singh Hooda
| image = File:Bhupinder Singh Hooda.png
| caption =
| office = [[List of current Indian opposition leaders|Leader of the Opposition]] in [[Haryana Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start = 4 September 2019
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Abhay Singh Chautala]]
| successor =
| office2 = 9th [[Chief Minister of Haryana]]
| term_start2 = 5 March 2005
| term_end2 = 26 October 2014
| predecessor2 = [[Om Prakash Chautala]]
| successor2 = [[Manohar Lal Khattar]]
| office3 = [[Haryana Legislative Assembly|Member of Haryana Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start5 = February 2000
| term_end5 = May 2004
| constituency5 = [[Kiloyi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kiloi]]
| predecessor5 = Shri Krishan Hooda
| successor5 = Shri Krishan Hooda
| term_start4 = June 2005
| term_end4 = October 2009
| constituency4 = [[Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kiloi]]
| predecessor4 = Shri Krishan Hooda
| successor4 = ''Constituency renamed as [[Garhi Sampla-Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Garhi Sampla-Kiloi]] after delimitation''
| office5 =
| term_start3 = 22 October 2009
| term_end3 =
| constituency3 = [[Garhi Sampla-Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Garhi Sampla-Kiloi]]
| predecessor3 = Position established ''{{small|Himself as MLA of [[Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Kiloi]]}}''
| successor3 =
| office6 = [[Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha]]
| term_start6 = June 1991
| term_end6 = October 1999
| constituency6 = [[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rohtak]]
| predecessor6 = [[Devi Lal]]
| successor6 = Inder Singh
| term_start7 = May 2004
| term_end7 = June 2005
| constituency7 = [[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rohtak]]
| predecessor7 = Inder Singh
| successor7 = [[Deepender Singh Hooda]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|9|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = Sanghi, [[Rohtak district|Rohtak]], [[East Punjab]], India
| party = [[Indian National Congress]] (1972 – ''present'')
| spouse = {{Marriage|Asha Dahiya|1976}}
| children = 2, including [[Deepender Singh Hooda]]
| father = [[Ranbir Singh Hooda]]
| alma_mater = [[Faculty of Law, University of Delhi]], [[Panjab University]]
}}

'''Bhupinder Singh Hooda''' (born 15 September 1947) 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.

When he began a second term in [[2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|October 2009]] after leading the [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] to an election victory, it was the first time since 1972 that a Haryana electorate returned a ruling party back to power. Hooda is also a Member of the Bar Council of [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] and Haryana. In 2010, Indian Prime Minister [[Manmohan Singh]] constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under Hooda's chairmanship to recommend strategies and action plan for increasing agricultural production and productivity, including long-term policies to ensure sustained agricultural growth.

==Early life==
Bhupinder Singh Hooda was born to Chaudhary [[Ranbir Singh Hooda]] and Har Devi Hooda at the Sanghi village in [[Rohtak district]] of [[Haryana]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YsL-7mlzEY8C&q=bhupinder+singh+hooda+jat&pg=PA141|title=Communal Crimes and National Integration: A Socio-legal Study|first=Praveen Kumar|last=Chaudhary|date=12 February 2011|publisher=Readworthy|access-date=12 February 2020|via=Google Books|isbn=9789350180402}}</ref><ref name="Som"/> His father [[Ranbir Singh Hooda]] was a renowned freedom fighter.<ref name="Som">{{Cite web|url=http://sompatidar.blogspot.com/2010/02/freedom-fighters-pay-tribute-to.html|title=Som Patidar: Freedom Fighters Pay Tribute to Chaudhary Ranbir Singh|access-date=12 February 2020}}</ref>

He is an alumnus of [[Sainik School, Balachadi]], Jamnagar, Gujarat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=35950 |title=Public Information Bureau release on balachadi Sainik School}}</ref> He did his B.A. at [[Panjab University, Chandigarh]] after which he pursued law from the prestigious [[Faculty of Law, University of Delhi]]. He started his political career from Youth Congress.

==Political career==
Chaudhry Bhupinder Singh Hooda was elected as a [[Member of parliament, Lok Sabha|member of parliament]] from [[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rohtak Lok Sabha]] segment for four terms in 1991, 1996, 1998, 2004. He also remained the Leader of Opposition in Haryana's 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 attended international Conferences like World Youth Festival in USSR, World Parliamentary Conference in China, International Conference in USSR as a delegate of AICC and OISCA and International Conferences in Japan and South Korea.

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' Organisation; 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 K&V.I Board's Employees Unions.

To encourage youngsters to pick up Olympic sports, Hooda announced a cash award of Rs 25 million for the state athletes who would win gold medal in any discipline at the London Games. Cash prize money of Rs 15 million and Rs 10 million for silver and bronze medal winners has also been announced.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/london-olympics-2012/news/Rs-2-5-Crore-for-gold-medal-in-Olympics-Haryana-CM/articleshow/15163327.cms|title=Rs 2.5 Crore for gold medal in Olympics: Haryana CM
|date= 27 July 2012 | work=The Times Of India}}</ref> Hooda has come under the scanner of the CBI for alleged misappropriation of funds and scams.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/cbi-names-bhupinder-singh-hooda-main-conspirator-in-rs-1000-crore-manesar-land-scam-5070604/|title=CBI names Bhupinder Singh Hooda main conspirator in Rs 1000 crore Manesar land scam|date=20 February 2018|work=The Indian Express|access-date=25 February 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2019, CBI's preliminary inquiry (PE) has revealed that Hooda and TC Gupta, a 1987 batch IAS officer and the then head of the town and planning department, allegedly hatched a criminal conspiracy with private builders to deliberately notify huge chunks of land in various sectors of Gurgaon for acquisition for public purpose. This led to the landowners selling their lands at throwaway prices to private builders. But the government ended up actually acquiring only a small proportion of these notified land tracts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/cbi-registers-new-case-against-ex-haryana-cm-hooda-in-land-scam-carries-out-searches-at-30-locations/articleshow/67683397.cms|title=CBI books former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda for 'illegal' land deals|first=Raghav|last=Ohri|date=26 January 2019|access-date=12 February 2020|newspaper=The Economic Times}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Hooda married Asha Dahiya in 1976. He has two children.<ref name="Adil">{{cite news |last1=Adil |first1=Mohammad |title=Bhupinder Singh Hooda: Will the Congress heavyweight stomp his authority in Sonipat? |url=https://www.timesnownews.com/elections/article/bhupinder-singh-hooda-role-in-haryana-politics-and-elections-about-bhupinder-singh-hooda-from-congress-political-career-and-history/415772 |access-date=24 May 2019 |work=[[Times Now]] |date=9 May 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190524195959/https://www.timesnownews.com/elections/article/bhupinder-singh-hooda-role-in-haryana-politics-and-elections-about-bhupinder-singh-hooda-from-congress-political-career-and-history/415772 |archive-date=24 May 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> His son [[Deepender Singh Hooda]] was the MP of Rohtak from 2004 to 2019.

==Positions held==
===Position held in Pradesh Congress Committee===
{|class ="wikitable"
|-
! SI No.
! Post
! Tenure
|-
|1.
|Block Congress Committee, Kiloi, Haryana.
|1972-1977
|-
|2.
|1.) Senior Vice-president, Haryana Pradesh Youth Congress. 2.) Chairman of Panchayat Samiti, Rohtak. 3.) Chairman of Panchayat Parishad of Haryana.
|1980-1987
|-
|3.
|President of the [[Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee]].
|1996-2001
|-
|4.
|Chairperson, Election Management Committee.
|[[Incumbent]]
|-
|}

===Lok Sabha===
{|class ="wikitable"
|-
! SI No.
! Year
! Lok Sabha
! Constituency
! Margin
! Party
|-
|1.
|[[1991 Indian general election|1991]]
|[[10th Lok Sabha|10th]]
|[[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rohtak]]
|30,573.
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|2.
|[[1996 Indian general election|1996]]
|[[11th Lok Sabha|11th]]
|[[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rohtak]]
|2,664.
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|3.
|[[1998 Indian general election|1998]]
|[[12th Lok Sabha|12th]]
|[[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rohtak]]
|383.
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|4.
|[[2004 Indian general election|2004]]
|[[14th Lok Sabha|14th]]
|[[Rohtak (Lok Sabha constituency)|Rohtak]]
|{{formatnum:150435}}.
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|}

===Haryana Legislative Assembly===
{|class ="wikitable"
|-
! SI No.
! Year
! Legislative Assembly
! Constituency
! Margin
! Party
|-
|1.
|[[2000 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|2000]]
|9th
|[[Garhi Sampla-Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Garhi Sampla Kiloi]]
|11,958. [54% vote share]
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|2.
|[[2005 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|2005]]
|10th
|[[Garhi Sampla-Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Garhi Sampla Kiloi]]
|{{formatnum:103635}}. [97% vote share]
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|3.
|[[2009 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|2009]]
|11th
|[[Garhi Sampla-Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Garhi Sampla Kiloi]]
|72,100. [80% vote share]
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|4.
|[[2014 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|2014]]
|12th
|[[Garhi Sampla-Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Garhi Sampla Kiloi]]
|47,185. [60% vote share]
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|5.
|[[2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election|2019]]
|13th
|[[Garhi Sampla-Kiloi (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Garhi Sampla Kiloi]]
|58,312. [66% vote share]
|bgcolor=#00BFFF|[[Indian National Congress|INC]]
|-
|}

===Government of Haryana===
{|class ="wikitable"
|-
! SI No.
! Post
! Date Appointed
! Tenure
|-
|1.
|Leader of the Opposition
|
|2002-2004
|-
|2.
|'''[[Chief Minister of Haryana|Chief Minister]]'''
|'''5 March 2005'''
|'''2005-2009'''
|-
|3.
|'''[[Chief Minister of Haryana|Chief Minister]]'''
|'''25 October 2009'''
|'''2009-2014'''
|-
|4.
|Leader of the Opposition
|4 September 2019
|[[Incumbent]]
|-
|}

==Criticism and scam cases==
There are six CBI cases and several other vigilance department investigations against Hooda underway.<ref name=chor5>{{cite news |title=हुड्डा की घेरेबंदी में जुटी हरियाणा सरकार, दो और मामलों में सीबीआई जांच के आदेश |url=https://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/state/punjab-and-haryana/chandigarh/bhupendra-singh-hooda-to-face-cbi-probe-in-two-more-cases/articleshow/63288447.cms |access-date=25 January 2021 |work=Navbharat Times |date=13 March 2018 |language=hi}}</ref> [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] is investigating several scams, mostly related to illegal land grab, that took place during his rule in Haryana. These investigations include the Gurugram-Manesar IMT land scam, [[Robert Vadra DLF land grab scam]], [[Gurugram Rajiv Gandhi Trust land grab scam]], [[Sonepat-Kharkhoda IMT land scam case]], [[Garhi Sampla Uddar Gagan land scam]], Panchkula-HUDA Industrial plots allotment scam, [[AJL-National Herald Panchkula land grab scam]], [[Haryana Forestry scam case]] and [[Haryana Raxil drug purchase scam]]. He has been already [[chargesheet]]ed in the Manesar-Gurugram land scam, while other cases are still under investigation (c. March 2018).<ref name=chor1>{{cite news |title=CBI to probe two more Hooda govt land deals |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/haryana/cbi-to-probe-two-more-hooda-govt-land-deals-557679 |access-date=25 January 2021 |work=Tribune |date=14 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=chor5/>

==See also==
* [[Political families of Haryana|Dynastic politics of Haryana]]

==References==
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