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TopicBhupinder Singh Hooda

Topic: Bhupinder Singh Hooda

Murari Lal Tayal: How a mighty Hooda-era civil servant landed in ED crosshairs

Gurugram: Murari Lal Tayal was a prominent figure in Haryana’s bureaucracy during Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s first term as Chief Minister, serving as his Principal...

Congress’s Ambala MP Varun Chaudhry questions party priorities citing Haryana municipal poll lists

Congress Ambala MP Varun Chaudhry writes to AICC in-charge for Haryana Dipak Babaria advising him to instead ‘channelize his energies’ to set up party’s organisational structure.

Stage set for showdown before Congress meet as Hooda faction MLAs want him as Haryana LoP again

'Informal' meet called by Hooda days ahead of Friday's crucial Congress Legislature Party meeting saw 31 MLAs vow their support to him. However, 5 MLAs from Selja camp skipped it.

Haryana ex-CM Hooda wins by over 70,000 votes against BJP’s Manju Hooda in Garhi-Sampla-Kiloi

Bhupinder Singh Hooda was the Haryana chief minister from 2005 to 2014.

Polling begins for 90 Assembly seats in Haryana, BJP eyes hat-trick

Besides the BJP and the Congress, the key contesting parties are the Aam Aadmi PArty (AAP) and the INLD-BSP and JJP-Azad Samaj Party alliances.

How a sense of humiliation gave rise to the modern Jat identity & impacted Haryana’s politics

In early 20th century, Jats adopted elements of Arya Samaj movement. Since then, from kshatriya to kisan to demand for OBC status, their identity evolved in response to modern anxieties.

In jolt to BJP in Haryana, ex-MP Ashok Tanwar rejoins Congress, to boost party’s Dalit outreach

Tanwar—who left Congress in 2019, joined several parties in succession & was BJP candidate in 2024 LS polls—was reinducted into party in Rahul Gandhi's presence.

Haryana Congress candidates promise ‘1 job for 50 votes, happy relatives’. ‘Parchi-parmeshwar’, says BJP

Haryana CM Nayab Saini, state BJP unit take digs at Congress ahead of 5 October election where unemployment has emerged as key issue. Hooda says candidates' statements twisted by BJP.

Wrestling to political ring? Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia meet Rahul, likely to contest Haryana polls

Phogat has been offered choice of 3 seats, while Punia has 2 options to choose from, it is learnt. Hooda batted for tickets for the wrestlers at Congress’s Central Election Committee meet.

BJP seeks date change for Haryana polls, Congress calls it a move to delay defeat

BJP has asked EC to change the date citing concerns that holidays around 1 October could impact polling negatively. Congress says it has ‘no problem with pre-announced dates’.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

We were given free hand, no restrictions placed on us: IAF chief on Op Sindoor

New Delhi: Indian Air Force chief Air Marshal A.P. Singh Saturday made it clear that there were no restrictions imposed by the political class...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.