Gopal Goyal Kanda is the Haryana Lokhit Party (HLP) leader and former Haryana minister. Kanda won the Sirsa Assembly constituency twice in 2009 and 2019. In the 2019 Haryana Assembly polls, Kanda defeated independent candidate Gokul Setia by just 602 votes. In the 2009 elections, Kanda, as an independent candidate, defeated Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD) Padam Chand Jain by 6,469 votes. However, Kanda was defeated by INLD's Makhan Lal Singla in the 2014 Haryana Assembly polls by 2,938 votes. He was the former Minister of State for Urban Local Bodies and Home, Industries, and Commerce in the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government. Gopal Kanda is again contesting from the Sirsa constituency in the 2024 Haryana Assembly polls against Congress candidate Gopal Setia, Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Shyam Sunder, and Jannayak Janta Party's (JJP) Pawan Sherpura.