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Randeep Surjewala
Randeep Singh Surjewala (born 3 June 1967) is an Indian politician from Haryana and a member of Indian National Congress party. He was an MLA in the Haryana state legislature until 2019 and a former minister. He held water supply and sanitation, parliamentary affairs, electronics and information technology, science and technology and public works as a minister in Haryana cabinet. In 2005, he was given the responsibility of Transport and Parliamentary Affairs and thus became the youngest minister in Haryana. He defeated Om Prakash Chautala in 1996 and 2005. As of December 2017, Surjewala is one of the official spokespersons of Indian National Congress party, and as of September 2021, is a General Secretary of the Indian National Congress and Party in-charge for Karnataka. In the biennial elections of the Rajya Sabha for the State of Rajasthan, held on 10 June 2022, Mr. Surjewala was elected as a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, with his term to start on 5 July 2022. Early lif ...
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Chandigarh
Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which also includes the adjacent satellite cities of Panchkula and Mohali. It is located 260 km (162 miles) north of New Delhi and 229 km (143 miles) southeast of Amritsar. Chandigarh is one of the earliest planned cities in post-independence India and is internationally known for its architecture and urban design. The master plan of the city was prepared by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, which built upon earlier plans created by the Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and the American planner Albert Mayer. Most of the government buildings and housing in the city were designed by a team headed by Le Corbusier, Jane Drew and Maxwell Fry. Chandigarh's Capitol Complex—as part of a global ensemble of Corbusier's buildings—was ...
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2005 Haryana Legislative Assembly Election
The Haryana legislative assembly election, 2005 was held on 3 February 2005, to select the 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. Results were declared on 27 February 2005. Indian National Congress got 67 seats and form government. Results The results were declared on 27 February 2005. Elected members References {{Haryana elections 2005 2005 Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ...
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Indian National Lok Dal
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party in India, in the state of Haryana. INLD was founded in October 1996 as Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Choudhary Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the V.P. Singh's Cabinet and Chief Minister of Haryana twice. His son Om Prakash Chautala is the President. Former Leader of Opposition, Abhay Singh Chautala is Secretary General of INLD. History Chaudhary Devi Lal founded the Bharatiya Lok Dal in 1974 after winning the election from Rori constituency to the Haryana Legislative Assembly, while the INLD was founded in the year 1987 after assembly election. The 1982 and 1987 elections were fought under the name Lok Dal (LKD). The party renamed into its current name in 1998. The party was a member of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), and thus part of the Bharatiya Janata Party led government from 1998 to 2004 at the Federal level. INLD has performed poorly in all the four consecutive general ele ...
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2000 Haryana Legislative Assembly Election
The Haryana legislative assembly election, 2000 was held on 22 February 2000, to select the 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. Results were declared on 25 February 2000. Indian National Lok Dal got 47 seats and form government. Results The results were declared on 25 February 2000. Elected members Cabinet * Om Prakash Chautala ministry References {{Haryana elections 2000 2000 Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...
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Haryana Vikas Party
Haryana Vikas Party (HVP) (translation: Haryana Development Party) was a political party in the Indian state of Haryana. Its president was Bansi Lal and general secretary Chaudhary Surender Singh. After parted company with Congress in 1996, Bansi Lal set up the Haryana Vikas Party and his campaign against prohibition propelled him to power in the assembly polls the same year.On 14 October 2004 HVP merged with the Indian National Congress. See also *Indian National Congress breakaway parties Since India gained independence in 1947, the Indian National Congress (INC) has seen a steady number of splits and breakaway factions. Some of the breakaway organisations have thrived as independent parties, some have become defunct, while oth ... 2004 disestablishments in India Defunct political parties in Haryana Former member parties of the National Democratic Alliance Indian National Congress breakaway groups Political parties disestablished in 2004 Political parties with ye ...
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1996 Haryana Legislative Assembly Election
Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 1996 were held in Indian state of Haryana to elect 90 members of the state's legislative assembly. The 90 members were elected by First-past-the-post system from 90 constituencies. Haryana Vikas Party' Bansi Lal was elected Chief Minister of Haryana after his party gained majority seats with help of Bharatiya Janta Party. Results !colspan=10, , - !colspan=2, Party !Candidates !Seats won !Votes !Vote % , - , , align="left", Haryana Vikas Party , , 65 , , 33 , , 17,16,572 , , 22.7% , - , , align="left", Samta Party , , 89 , , 24 , , 15,57,914 , , 20.6% , - , , align="left", Bharatiya Janata Party , , 25 , , 11 , , 6,72,558 , , 8.9% , - , , align="left", Independent , , 2022 , , 10 , , 11,73,533 , , 15.5% , - , , align="left", Indian National Congress , , 90 , , 9 , , 15,76,882 , , 20.8% , - , , align="left", All India Indira Congress (Tiwari) , , 62 , , 3 , , 2,42,638 , , 3.2% , - Elected members Bye Election ...
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Janata Party
The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian National Congress. In the 1977 general election, the party defeated the Congress and Janata leader Morarji Desai became the first non-Congress prime minister in independent modern India's history. Raj Narain, a socialist leader, had filed a legal writ alleging electoral malpractice against Indira Gandhi in 1971. On 12 June 1975, Allahabad High Court found her guilty of using corrupt electoral practices in her 1971 election victory over Narain in the Rae Bareli constituency. She was barred from contesting any election for the next six years. Economic problems, corruption and the conviction of Gandhi led to widespread protests against the Congress (R) government, which responded by imposing a State of Emergency. The rationale was that of pr ...
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Narwana (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Narwana Assembly constituency is one of the 90 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Haryana state in India. It is part of Jind district and is reserved for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Castes. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results Assembly Election 2019 Assembly Election 2014 Assembly Election 2009 Assembly Election 2005 Assembly Election 2000 Assembly Election 1996 Assembly By-election 1993 Assembly Election 1991 Assembly Election 1987 Assembly Election 1982 Assembly Election 1977 Assembly Election 1972 Assembly Election 1968 Assembly Election 1967 See also * List of constituencies of the Haryana Legislative Assembly * Jind district Jind district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. Jind town is the administrative headquart ...
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1991 Haryana Legislative Assembly Election
Haryana Legislative Assembly election, 1991 were held in Indian state of Haryana to elect 90 members of the state's legislative assembly. The 90 members were elected by First-past-the-post system from 90 constituencies. Results Indian National Congress' Bhajan Lal was elected Chief Minister of Haryana after his party gained majority seats. , - align=center !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable", !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center, Political Party !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of candidates !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , No. of elected !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , Number of Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , % of Votes , - , , align="left", Indian National Congress, , 90, , 51, , 2,084,856, , 33.73% , - , , align="left", Janata Party, , 88, , 16, , 1,361,955, , 22.03% , - , , align="left", Haryana Vikas Party, , 61, , 12, , 775,375, , 12.54% , - , , align="left", Janata Dal, , 25, , 3, , 277,380, , 4.49% , - , , al ...
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Bhupinder Singh Hooda
Bhupinder Singh Hooda (born 15 September 1947) is an Indian National Congress politician who is the current Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly. He also served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. When he began a second term in October 2009 after leading the Congress to an election victory, it was the first time since 1972 that a Haryana electorate returned a ruling party back to power. Hooda is also a Member of the Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana. In 2010, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituted the Working Group on Agriculture Production under Hooda's chairmanship to recommend strategies and action plan for increasing agricultural production and productivity, including long-term policies to ensure sustained agricultural growth. Early life Bhupinder Singh Hooda was born to Chaudhary Ranbir Singh Hooda and Har Devi Hooda at the Sanghi village in Rohtak district of Haryana. His father Ranbir Singh Hooda was a renowned freedom figh ...
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The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after '' The Times of India''. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. The current chairperson of the group is Malini Parthasarathy, a great-granddaughter of Iyengar. Except for a period of about two years, when Siddharth Varadarajan, S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, the editorial positions of the paper were always held by members of the family or held under t ...
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