Om Prakash Chautala

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Om Prakash Chautala
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8th Chief Minister of Haryana
In office
24 July 1999 – 5 March 2005[1]
Preceded byBansi Lal
Succeeded byBhupinder Singh Hooda
In office
22 March 1991 – 6 April 1991
Preceded byHukam Singh
Succeeded byPresident's Rule
In office
12 July 1990 – 17 July 1990
Preceded byBanarsi Das Gupta
Succeeded byHukam Singh
In office
2 December 1989 – 22 May 1990
Preceded byChaudhary Devi Lal
Succeeded byBanarsi Das Gupta
Personal details
Born (1935-01-01) 1 January 1935 (age 90)
Chautala, Punjab, British India
NationalityIndian
Political partyIndian National Lok Dal
Spouse(s)Sneh Lata Chautala
Children5, including Ajay Singh Chautala and Abhay Singh Chautala
Parent(s)
ResidenceSirsa district, Haryana
OccupationAgriculturalist
ProfessionPolitician

Om Prakash Chautala (born 1 January 1935) is a former Chief Minister of Haryana from Indian National Lok Dal and son of 6th Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal.

Biography

Chautala is the son of Chaudhari Devi Lal,[2][3] a former Deputy Prime Minister of India.[4][5] He was married to Sneh Lata, who died in August 2019.[6] He has two sons, Ajay Singh Chautala and Abhay Singh Chautala, and three daughters. Abhay is former MLA from Ellenabad who In January 2021, resigned from the Haryana Assembly over the three farm legislations , also remained Leader of Opposition, Haryana Legislative Assembly from October2014 - March2019 , 10th President of Indian Olympic Association and his grandson Dushyant Chautala is a Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana from Uchana, Jind Seat of Haryana Vidhan Sabha and former MP from Hisar Lok Sabha Seat. He was the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2 December 1989 to 22 May 1990, from 12 July 1990 to 17 July 1990, again from 22 March 1991 to 6 April 1991 and, finally, from 24 July 1999 to 5 March 2005.[1] Politically, he had been part of NDA and Third Front (non-NDA & non-Cong front) at national level.[7].

Former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, who was serving a 10-year prison term in a teacher recruitment scam case, was released from the Tihar Jail here on Friday after completing due formalities, prison officials said. The 86-year-old Chautala, who was already out on parole, reached Tihar on Friday to complete formalities after which he was released from jail, they said.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 HARYANA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Archived 13 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine Haryana Legislative Assembly.
  2. ↑ Singh, Raj Pal (1988). Devi Lal, the man of the masses. Veenu Printers and Publications. p. 3.
  3. ↑ "The Jat patriarch". Vol. Volume 18 – Issue 09. 11 May 2001. Retrieved 13 June 2014. {{cite news}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  4. ↑ Raj Pal Singh (1988). Devi Lal, the man of the masses. Veenu Printers & Publishers. p. 3. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  5. ↑ History of Sirsa Town. Atlantic Publishers & Distri. 1991. pp. 241–. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
  6. ↑ "Former Haryana Chief Minister OP Chautala's Wife Dies At 81". NDTV.com. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  7. ↑ PTI (5 October 2014). "Chautala compares Devi Lal with Buddha; slams Cong, BJP | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  8. ↑ https://indianexpress.com/article/india/o-p-chautala-released-tihar-jail-7385748/

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