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	'''Ranbir Singh Hooda''' was an Indian politician from [[Haryana]]. He was a member of the [[Indian National Congress]]. He served as a minister in [[East Punjab\|undivided Punjab]] and then in the [[Haryana government]]. His 100th birth anniversary celebration was inaugurated by President [[Pranab Mukherjee]] on 27 November 2014.<ref name="dna" /><ref>[http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2014/11/28/Freedom-Fighter-Chaudhary-Ranbir-Singh-Eulogised-on-His-Birth-Centenary/article2544579.ece Freedom Fighter Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Eulogised on His Birth Centenary], 28 November 2014The New Indian Express.</ref><ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/president-calls-for-remembering-freedom-fighters-and-constitution-drafters/articleshow/45297204.cms?intenttarget=no President calls for remembering freedom fighters and Constitution drafters], 27 November 2014, The Economic Times.</ref>		'''Ranbir Singh Hooda''' (1914-2009) was an Indian politician from [[Haryana]]. He was a member of the [[Indian National Congress]]. He served as a minister in [[East Punjab\|undivided Punjab]] and then in the [[Haryana government]]. His 100th birth anniversary celebration was inaugurated by President [[Pranab Mukherjee]] on 27 November 2014.<ref name="dna" /><ref>[http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2014/11/28/Freedom-Fighter-Chaudhary-Ranbir-Singh-Eulogised-on-His-Birth-Centenary/article2544579.ece Freedom Fighter Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Eulogised on His Birth Centenary], 28 November 2014The New Indian Express.</ref><ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/president-calls-for-remembering-freedom-fighters-and-constitution-drafters/articleshow/45297204.cms?intenttarget=no President calls for remembering freedom fighters and Constitution drafters], 27 November 2014, The Economic Times.</ref>

	== Early childhood ==		== Early childhood ==

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'''Ranbir Singh Hooda''' was an Indian politician from [[Haryana]]. He was a member of the [[Indian National Congress]]. He served as a minister in [[East Punjab|undivided Punjab]] and then in the [[Haryana government]]. His 100th birth anniversary celebration was inaugurated by President [[Pranab Mukherjee]] on 27 November 2014.<ref name="dna" /><ref>[http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2014/11/28/Freedom-Fighter-Chaudhary-Ranbir-Singh-Eulogised-on-His-Birth-Centenary/article2544579.ece Freedom Fighter Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Eulogised on His Birth Centenary], 28 November 2014The New Indian Express.</ref><ref>[http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/president-calls-for-remembering-freedom-fighters-and-constitution-drafters/articleshow/45297204.cms?intenttarget=no President calls for remembering freedom fighters and Constitution drafters], 27 November 2014, The Economic Times.</ref>

== Early childhood ==
Born into a [[Jat]] family<ref>[https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/haryana-assembly-election/story/dushyant-chautala-and-deepender-hooda-gen-next-jat-scions-searching-for-new-ground-1612968-2019-10-25 Dushyant Chautala and Deepender Hooda: Gen-next Jat scions searching for new ground ''India Today'']</ref> 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.<ref name="born">Abhishek Kadyan (1 February 2009) [http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420879.html Ch Ranbir Singh Hooda member of India's Constituent Assembly is no more]. indymedia.org.uk</ref>

== Education ==
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.

== Participation in freedom movement ==
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.

== Political career ==
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 and peasants. 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.<ref name="dna">[http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-president-pranab-mukherjee-to-inaugurate-centenary-celebrations-of-freedom-fighter-ranbir-singh-hooda-2038139 President Pranab Mukherjee to inaugurate centenary celebrations of freedom fighter Ranbir Singh Hooda]. DNA India. Updated 24 November 2014</ref>

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.<ref name="ani">[http://www.aninews.in/newsdetail2/story193046/president-mukherjee-to-inaugurate-centenary-celebrations-of-freedom-fighter-ranbir-singh-hooda.html President Mukherjee to inaugurate centenary celebrations of freedom fighter Ranbir Singh Hooda] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703162749/http://aninews.in/newsdetail2/story193046/president-mukherjee-to-inaugurate-centenary-celebrations-of-freedom-fighter-ranbir-singh-hooda.html |date=3 July 2016 }}</ref> 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 Organisation till his demise.<ref name="born" />

== Recognition ==
[[File:Ranbir Singh Hooda 2011 stamp of India.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Ranbir Singh Hooda on a 2011 stamp of India]]
Ranbir Singh Hooda had set a record for being a member of seven different houses in India's democratic history, a feat that has been registered and acknowledged by the Limca Book of Records.<ref name="dna" />

On 1 February 2011, Indian National Congress President Sonia Gandhi released a postage stamp depicting him.<ref>[http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article391787.ece Sonia anguished on blind race for power and pelf], 1 February 2011, The New Indian Express.</ref><ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110202/haryana.htm#4 Sonia releases stamp on Chaudhary Ranbir Singh], Tribune News Service.</ref>

== Death ==
Ranbir Singh Hooda died at the age of 94 on 1 February 2009.<ref name="ani" /> He was few of the surviving members of the Constituent Assembly of India during his death. He is survived by his sons [[Bhupinder Singh Hooda|Bhupinder Singh]], Inder Singh and Dharmender Singh. Two of his sons, Pratap Singh and Joginder Singh, had died earlier.

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