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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.
Bhupinder Singh Hooda
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Pages of file pertaining to Vadra-DLF deal missing: Khemka
India | Dec 19, 2014, 03:02 PM ISTChandigarh: 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
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Politics, 'godman' issue, SGPC kept Haryana in news in 2014
National | Dec 17, 2014, 11:00 AM ISTChandigarh: 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
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Khattar botched up Rampal issue: Congress
National | Nov 20, 2014, 09:07 AM ISTNew 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
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26 IAS officers transferred in Haryana
India | Nov 13, 2014, 01:27 PM ISTChandigarh: 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
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Birender trains guns on Hooda, demands probe into CLU scam
National | Nov 11, 2014, 06:26 PM ISTNew 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
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Patil, Kiran Choudhary made CLP leaders of Maharashtra Haryana
National | Nov 10, 2014, 03:01 PM ISTNew 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
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Kumari Selja blames Bhupinder Singh Hooda for Congress debacle in Haryana
National | Oct 21, 2014, 07:00 AM ISTNew 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
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Country's richest woman Savitri Jindal loses in Haryana polls
National | Oct 19, 2014, 02:59 PM ISTChandigarh: 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
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Haryana Polls: Haryana may see end of decade-long Congress rule
National | Oct 18, 2014, 11:10 PM ISTChandigarh: 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
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Haryana polls: Parties claim victory in multi-cornered contest
National | Oct 15, 2014, 04:20 PM ISTChandigarh: 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
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Chautala can only form 'cabinet of prisoners', says Hooda
National | Oct 12, 2014, 10:34 PM ISTKarnal (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
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After EC order on Vadra land deal,Congress demands apology from Modi
National | Oct 09, 2014, 09:21 PM ISTNew 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
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Haryana Polls: INLD, SAD share inseparable bond: Sukhbir
National | Oct 09, 2014, 09:33 PM ISTNilokheri (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
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Haryana government did not present full facts on Vadra deal: BJP
National | Oct 09, 2014, 07:15 PM ISTNew 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
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I want to bring in saffron revolution, says Narendra Modi
National | Oct 08, 2014, 04:23 PM ISTRohtak: 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
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EC gets report on Haryana government's clearance to Vadra-DLF land deal
National | Oct 07, 2014, 10:56 PM ISTNew 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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Modi seeks to sensationalise everything: Congress
National | Oct 06, 2014, 05:05 PM ISTChandigarh: Congress today hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for raking up the issue of land deal involving Robert Vadra, saying he seeks to “sensationalise and politicise everything” and accused him of violating Model
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Ready to quit if land deals allegations proved correct: Hooda
National | Oct 06, 2014, 04:29 PM ISTNew Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said his government has nothing to do with the land deals involving Robert Vadra and those making such allegations can approach the Lokayukta to probe the
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Prestige at stake in multi-cornered fight in Haryana polls
National | Oct 04, 2014, 02:02 PM ISTChandigarh: Prestige is at stake as top guns of Haryana politics including the kin of the three famous ‘Lals' battle it out in a multi-cornered contest for the October 15 Assembly elections.Unlike in the recent
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Opposition lacks development vision, has divisive agenda: Hooda
National | Oct 03, 2014, 08:30 PM ISTChandigarh: Accusing opposition parties of having "divisive" agenda and lacking in development vision, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said if voted to power Congress will ensure that fruits of development reach all sections