Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former chief minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014, and current state chief of Congress part is stepping into the political battlefield from the Garhi-Sampla-Kiloi, constituency from where he won the past 4 assembly polls.
Hooda, began his political career being part of the Youth Congress and was afterward elected as a member of parliament from the Rohtak Lok Sabha segment for four terms in 1991, 1996, 1998, 2004.
The 76-year-old politician is an alumnus of Sainik School, Punjab University, Chandigarh, who then pursued law at Delhi University.
Positions:
Hooda is the President of the All India Young Farmers' Association, Haryana, and has served as a Member of the Market Committee in Rohtak. Additionally, he was a Director at the Bank of India from 1989 to 1992. He has been the Secretary of the Farmers' Parliamentary Forum since 1991 and is a Founder Member and Working President of the All India Freedom Fighters' Successors' Organisation.
Furthermore, he serves as the Working President of the National Federation of Railway Porters, Vendors, and Bearers. He has been elected as President of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Employees Union and is Patron of the National Khadi and Village Industries Board's Employees Federation, which is the apex body for all State K&V.I Board Employees Unions.
Hooda's controversies:
Hooda is facing multiple legal cases, with six active CBI cases and several vigilance department inquiries currently being investigated.
Hooda has come under scrutiny from the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) regarding allegations of financial misappropriation and scams. In 2019, the CBI's preliminary inquiry revealed that Hooda and TC Gupta, a senior civil servant (1987 batch IAS officer) and former head of the Town and Planning Department, allegedly conspired with private developers to deliberately designate large areas of land in various sectors of Gurgaon for acquisition for public use.
This led to landowners selling their properties at significantly reduced prices to private builders, only for the government to ultimately acquire merely a small fraction of the notified land parcels.
Wins and loses:
Hooda has only lost Lok Sabha elections one time i.e. in 1999, and won in 1991, 1996, 1998, and 2004. Meanwhile, the Congress leader had registered victory in all the Haryana Assembly elections in 2000, 2009, 2014, and 2019.
The assembly elections in Haryana are scheduled for October 5 with the results to be declared on October 8.
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