Ranjit Singh Chautala is a politician and businessman from the Indian state of

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 ...

. Elected to the

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 ...

and the

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, he has also served in ministerial posts. Previously a member 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 ...

, the

Janata Dal Janata Dal () was an List of political parties in India, Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Lok Dal, Indian National Congress (Jagjivan), and the Jan Morcha on 11 October 1988—the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Na ...

, the

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 ...

and the

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 won the seat of Rania in the 2019 Haryana Assembly elections as an independent. Following the election, along with his grandnephew

Dushyant Chautala Dushyant Singh Chautala (born 3 April 1988) is an Indian politician who served as the 6th Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana from 2019 to 2024. He represented the Uchana Kalan constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly from 2019 until 2024 ...

, he supported the BJP to secure a majority and entered the Second Manohar Lal Khattar ministry with three portfolios: New and Renewable Energy, Power and Jails.

Family

Ranjit Singh is son of

Chaudhary Devi Lal Devi Lal (25 September 1914 – 6 April 2001) was an Indian statesman and politician who briefly served as the deputy prime minister of India from 1990 to 1991 and previously from 1989 to 1990. Lal emerged as a prominent advocate for rural and ...

Chautala who served twice as the former Deputy Prime Minister of India. He belongs to a very powerful family who participated in freedom struggle of India. Ranjit Singh's uncle Sahib Ram Sihag was a member of assembly in 1937 and 1946 and his father Devi Lal in Politics since 1951.

Career

In 1987 he was elected as the MLA of 7th Assembly from Rori Vidhan Sabha on Lok Dal ticket. He also served as agriculture minister of Haryana and his father was Chief Minister. In 1990 he was elected as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Haryana and his father Ch Devi Lal was Deputy Prime Minister of India at that time. He was the Deputy Chairman of State planning board, Haryana in 2005 - 2009. In 2019 he contested Haryana's 14th assembly from Rania Vidhan sabha and won as Independent MLA and became the minister.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chautala, Ranjit Haryana MLAs 2019–2024 People from Sirsa, Haryana Haryana MLAs 1987–1991 1945 births Living people Lok Dal politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Haryana Indian National Lok Dal politicians Indian National Congress politicians from Haryana Janata Dal politicians Agriculture ministers of Haryana

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