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Surender Singh
Surender Singh (15 November 1946 - 31 March 2005) was an Indian politician from the Haryana Vikas Party and twice (1996, 1998) represented Bhiwani constituency in the Lok Sabha, was a Rajya Sabha member 1986–1992, and twice represented Tosham in Haryana Vidhan Sabha. His widow won the Tosham by-poll caused by his death. Education He was educated at Panjab University, Chandigarh and completed his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Law. Profession Advocate and agriculturist, he was son of former Haryana Chief Minister Bansi Lal. Positions held 1971-73 General-Secretary, District Congress Committee (D.C.C.), Bhiwani 1973-77 Treasurer, Indian Youth Congress 1977-86 Member, Haryana Vidhan Sabha 1982-83 Cabinet Minister, Agriculture and Wildlife Preservation, Haryana 1986-92 Member, Rajya Sabha Member, Committee on Petitions Member, House Committee Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Civil Aviation Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhiwani
Bhiwani is a city and a municipal council in Bhiwani district in the state of Haryana. Besides being a seat of spiritual learning, the city is at the centre of regional politics and hometown of three former Haryana chief ministers: Bansi Lal, Banarsi Das Gupta and Hukum Singh. It is located 128 km west of national capital New Delhi. The city has a conventional school of boxing, with almost all of the members of the Indian Boxing Squad coming from its Sports Authority of India (SAI) hostel. The late Capt. Hawa Singh, the legendary boxer, helped establish the boxing academy in Bhiwani. Bhiwani is also known as Choti Kashi because of so many ancient Hindu temples in city like Kirorimal mandir, Khaki baba temple, Jogiwala mandir. History Etymology Bhiwani is a corrupted form of ''Bhani''. The town was founded by a rajput chief called Neem Singh. His wife named ''Bhani'' once saved his life from treachery. Consequently, he named the town after her. The corrupted name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Youth Congress
The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While prime minister, Indira Gandhi gave the Youth Congress a new dimension by establishing it as a frontal organisation of the Congress Party, with the objective of doing social work. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was the first president of the Indian Youth Congress who later became Minister of Broadcasting and Parliamentary affairs in the Indian Cabinet Ministers, Indian cabinet; Narayan Dutt Tiwari was the first President. Jitin Prasada was also the president of the Indian youth congress. During the 1970s, under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi, the Youth Congress undertook activities such as tree plantation, family planning, and fought against domestic violence and dowry deaths. After the death of Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi took over in charge o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Bhiwani District
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shruti Choudhry
Shruti Choudhry (born 3 October 1975) is an Indian politician from Haryana belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Since October 2024, she has been serving as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Haryana after being elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Tosham Assembly constituency. Choudhry is the granddaughter of the former Chief Minister of Haryana, Bansi Lal. Previously, she was a member of the Indian National Congress since 2005 and represented Bhiwani-Mahendragarh (Lok Sabha constituency) in the Indian Parliament from 2009 to 2014. Early life Shruti Choudhry was born in New Delhi on 3 October 1975. Her parents were Surender Singh and Kiran Choudhry, both of whom had served as ministers in the government of Haryana. Her paternal grandfather was the former Chief minister of Haryana, Bansi Lal and her family is among the major Political families of Haryana. Her family belongs to the Jat community. Choudhry's early education was at the Convent o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Om Prakash Jindal
Om Prakash Jindal (7 August 1930 – 31 March 2005), also known as O. P. Jindal, was an Indian industrialist and politician. He was the founder of the OP Jindal Group, a major steel and power conglomerate. Early life and education Jindal was born in the village of Nalwa in Hisar district of Haryana to a farmer family. He began his elementary education in his village but later continued it in the nearby town of Hansi. As a teenager, he was into bodybuilding and considered becoming a wrestler in Haryana's heartland. However, his parents sent him to Calcutta, along with his elder brothers, due to irregular monsoon patterns and constant disputes over land ownership, to learn the basics of wholesale and retail textile trading, as Eastern India was a hub of commerce at the time. Career Business career At 20, Jindal began his entrepreneurial journey by moving to Calcutta, where he worked as a trader dealing in steel pipes and tubes. He traded in iron and transported surp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pradesh Congress Committee
A Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) is the state-level unit of the Indian National Congress. It is responsible for the organization and management of the party's activities in a particular state of India. The PCC is made up of a president and several other office-bearers who are responsible for overseeing the party's activities in the state. The PCC is responsible for coordinating the activities of the Congress party at the district and block levels, and for organizing campaigns and events to mobilize public support for the party. It also works to build alliances with other political parties and social groups to enhance the party's electoral prospects. It is elected by card-holding members of the Congress and in turn elects state president and delegates to the All India Congress Committee. Each PCC has a working committee of twenty members, most of whom are appointed by the party president, the leader of the state party, who is chosen by the national president. Those elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All India Congress Committee
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) is the presidium or the central decision-making assembly of the Indian National Congress. It is composed of members elected from States and union territories of India, state-level Pradesh Congress Committees and can have as many as a thousand members. It is the AICC that elects members of the Congress Working Committee and the Congress President, who is also the head of the AICC. The organisational executives of the AICC are several general-secretaries selected by the Congress President and the members of the Congress Working Committee. AICC is responsible for decision-making and policy formulation for the party at the national level. It also sets the party's agenda and strategies for national and state-level elections. History The original headquarters of AICC were located at Swaraj Bhavan, Allahabad, however after independence of India in 1947, it was shifted to 7, Jantar Mantar Marg, near Jantar Mantar, Delhi and subsequently to 24 Ak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian Olympic Association
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) or Indian Olympic Committee (IOC) (ISO 15919, ISO: ''Bhāratīya Olaṃpika Saṃgha'') is responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Olympic Games, Asian Games and other international sports competitions, and managing Indian teams at these events. It goes with the name of Team India. It also acts as the Indian Commonwealth Games Association, responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Commonwealth Games. History The background behind the creation of the Indian Olympic Association was related to India at the Olympics, India's participation in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. After the 1920 Games, the committee sending the team to these games met, and, on the advice of Sir Dorab Tata, invited Dr. Noehren (Physical Education Director of YMCA India) to be secretary, along with AS Bhagwat, of the provisional Indian Olympic Committee; Dorab Tata would serve as its president. Subsequently, in 1923–24, a provision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurukshetra University
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (KUK) is a university established on 11January 1956 in Kurukshetra, in the Indian state of Haryana, from the capital, Delhi. It is a member of Association of Commonwealth Universities. History The university was in 1956 as a unitary residential University. The Department of Sanskrit was the only department in the university when it was inaugurated by Bharat Ratna Rajendra Prasad, the first President of India. The idea of establishing the university was conceived by then governor of Punjab, Chandeshwar Prasad Narayan Singh, a Sanskrit scholar. In 2012, the Department of philosophy introduced an academic course on Gita. Campus Spread over , the KUK campus is located on the western bank of Brahma Sarovar in the Hindu holy city of Kurukshetra. Faculties Faculty of Arts & Languages Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences Faculty of Science Faculty of Education Faculty of Indic Studies Faculty of Engg. & Technology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjab And Haryana High Court
Punjab and Haryana High Court is the common High Court for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh based in Chandigarh, India. Sanctioned strength of Judges of this High Court is 85 consisting of 64 Permanent Judges and 21 Additional Judges including Chief Justice. As of 14 September 2023, there are 58 Judges working in the High Court, comprising 36 Permanent and 22 Additional Judges. The court building is known as the Palace of Justice. Designed by Le Corbusier, it and several of his other works were inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites in July 2016. Sarv Mittra Sikri, who had been practising in the High Court of Punjab and Haryana and remained Advocate-General for Punjab from 1 November 1956 to 2 February 1964, was the first to be appointed as judge of the Supreme Court of India on 3 February 1964 directly from the Bar; later, becoming the Chief Justice of India on 22 January 1971, again with the distinction of being first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lok Sabha (2nd Term)
The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of Parliament of India which is bicameral, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the president of India on the advice of the Union Council of Ministers. The house meets in the Lok Sabha Chambers of the New Parliament House, New Delhi. The maximum membership of the House allotted by the Constitution of India is 552. (Initially, in 1950, it was 500.) Currently, the house has 543 seats which are filled by the election of up to 543 elected members. Between 1952 and 2020, two additional members of the Anglo-Indian community were also nominated by the President of India on the advice of the Government of India, which was abolished in January 2020 by the One Hundred and Fourth Amendment of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
