Kuldeep Bishnoi (born 22 September 1968) is an

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and a member of

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...

. He served as fourth-time member of

Haryana Legislative Assembly The Haryana Legislative Assembly (ISO: ''Hariyāṇā Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Haryana. The seating of the assembly is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. There are seats in the house fil ...

from

Adampur Adampur is a town, a municipal council and a sub-tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. The town was named after the Mughal general Adham Khan. Geography Adampur Doaba is located at . It has an average elevation of 233&nbs ...

in the

Hisar (city) Hisar also known as Hissar is the administrative headquarters of Hisar district in the state of Haryana in northwestern India. It is located to the west of New Delhi, India's capital, and has been identified as a National Capital Region (Ind ...

Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

. He was also a member of Congress Central Working Committee (CWC). Earlier in 2007, Bishnoi had founded a new party, Haryana Janhit Congress, a breakaway faction of

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

Personal life

Born to Smt. Jasma Devi and Ch. Bhajan Lal - Union Cabinet Minister (Agriculture; Environment & Forests) and three-time Chief Minister of Haryana - he graduated with a BA in Public Administration from

Punjab University Punjab University may refer to: India * Punjab Agricultural University, a state agricultural university in Ludhiana, Punjab * I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, a state university in Kapurthala, Punjab * Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Techn ...

Chandigarh Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana. Situated near the foothills of the Shivalik range of Himalayas, it borders Haryana to the east and Punjab in the ...

. He is married to Renuka Bishnoi, who was a Member of Legislative Assembly from

Hansi Hansi, is a city and municipal council in Hisar district in the Indian state of Haryana. It appears that at one time Hansi was larger, more prosperous and more important than Hisar. The town has several important buildings of archeological impor ...

(Hisar district) in

. He has three children - two sons and a daughter. His elder son, Bhavya Bishnoi, is an aspiring political leader, and younger son, Chaitanya Bishnoi, is a professional cricketer with

Chennai Super Kings The Chennai Super Kings, also known as CSK, are a professional Twenty20 cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, that competes in the Indian Premier League (IPL). The team was one of the eight debut franchises when the league was establ ...

in the IPL and Haryana in the Ranji Trophy. His daughter, Sia Bishnoi, is pursuing studies in New York, USA.

Political career

Kuldeep Bishnoi first became MLA in 1998 from Adampur, a seat from which the family has never lost since 1968 till now. In 2004, he defeated the sons of

Om Prakash Chautala Om Prakash Chautala (1 January 1935 – 20 December 2024) was an Indian politician who served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 1999 to 2005 . A member of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), he became the chief minister of Haryana for fiv ...

(serving Chief Minister of Haryana at the time) and

Bansi Lal Bansi Lal Legha (26 August 1927 – 28 March 2006), also known as Chaudhary Bansi Lal, was an Indian politician and independence activist, who served as the Minister of Defence of India and three-time Chief Minister of Haryana. He is also kno ...

(former Chief Minister of Haryana) - from

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 ...

in the

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elections. Kuldeep Bishnoi founded Haryana Janhit Congress - jatin (HJC (BL)) in 2007 along with his father Ch. Bhajan Lal. He founded the party after he was ousted from the

as he had criticised the then Haryana Chief Minister,

Bhupinder Singh Hooda Bhupinder Singh Hooda (born 15 September 1947) is an Indian National Congress politician, who has served as the Chief Minister of Haryana from 2005 to 2014. He was the Leader of the Opposition in Haryana Legislative Assembly from 2019 to 2024 ...

, for harming the interests of farmers by promoting special economic zones (SEZs) on fertile land. In October 2009, the party fielded candidates in 89 of the 90 constituencies for the state assembly elections and won seven of those seats, he himself winning from Adampur as an MLA and his father becoming MP from Hisar Lok Sabha constituency. Six of the seven elected representatives defected and transferred their support to Indian National Congress in lieu of ministerial portfolios. He filed a case against the defectors in the court of law and won. The Punjab and Haryana High Court disqualified them as members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. In March 2010, he and his party workers were lathi charged by the Chandigarh Police for peacefully protesting against rising inflation and unemployment, and unfair government policies for the farmers. In 2011, following the death of his father, HJC and BJP formed an alliance. The alliance was announced at a joint press conference addressed by BJP president Nitin Gadkari, party leader Sushma Swaraj, former Minister Prof. Ganeshi Lal, HJC co-founder Kuldeep Bishnoi. He won the Lok Sabha by-election, defeating

Ajay Singh Chautala Ajay Singh Chautala (born 13 March 1961) is a former Indian MP and sports administrator. He is elder son of former Chief Minister of Haryana Om Prakash Chautala and father of former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala. Biog ...

of the

Indian National Lok Dal The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party based primarily in the Indian state of Haryana. It was initially founded as the Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Devi Lal in 1996, who served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India. The ...

(INLD) and

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of the governing Indian National Congress, among others. Prakash and 38 other candidates forfeited their deposits. The elections gained attention due to their simultaneous occurrence with the Indian anti-corruption movement of 2011. In 2014, prior to the assembly elections, HJC-BJP alliance was broken off, the HJC claiming that BJP had failed to keep the alliance conditions. In 2016, after his meeting with the Congress vice-president

Rahul Gandhi Rahul Rajiv Gandhi (; born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician. A member of the Indian National Congress (INC), he is currently serving as the 12th leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha and as the member of the Lok Sabha for Rae Bareli Lok ...

, Kuldeep Bishnoi merged HJC (BL) with the Indian National Congress. He is presently a Special Invitee to the

Congress Working Committee The Congress Working Committee (CWC) is the executive committee of the Indian National Congress. It was formed in December 1920 at Nagpur session of INC which was headed by C. Vijayaraghavachariar. It is composed of senior party leaders and is r ...

(CWC) and was a campaigner for the Rajasthan Assembly elections in 2018. In 2019 assembly election he was elected from Adampur constituency defeating rival candidate by nearly a margin of 29782 votes. On 4 August 2022 he joined Bharatiya Janata party in party headquarters.

Controversy

In June 2022, Bishnoi was blamed for the loss of Congress Rajya Sabha nominee Ajay Maken in

, when he allegedly cross-voted in favour of JJP-backed and BJP-supported Independent candidate, Kartikeya. He was removed from all party posts from Congress. On 3 August 2022, he resigned from the Legislative Assembly and joined the

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Kuldeep Bishnoi
Lok Sabha MP bio data {{DEFAULTSORT:Bishnoi, Kuldeep 1968 births Living people India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 2009–2014 People from Bhiwani People from Hisar (city) Lok Sabha members from Haryana National Democratic Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Haryana MLAs 2019–2024 Haryana MLAs 2014–2019 Haryana Janhit Congress politicians Indian National Congress politicians from Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Haryana

Personal life

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