Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) supremo and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala handed away in Gurugram on Friday, December 20, on the age of 89. Om Prakash Chautala died after a cardiac arrest, get together spokesperson advised information company PTI.
Om Prakash Chautala was final seen in public throughout the voting of the Haryana Meeting election, which passed off on October 5 this yr. He was seen at a polling sales space in Sirsa’s Chautala village.
Om Prakash Chautala, son of former Deputy Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Devi Lal, served because the seventh chief minister of Haryana.
Chautala was awarded a four-year jail time period in a 16 years outdated disproportionate property case on 27 Could 2022 by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Courtroom and have become the oldest prisoner of the Delhi’s Tihar jail aged 87. He was launched in 2020.
Om Prakash Chautala’s spouse Sneh Lata died in August 2019. Chautala has three daughters and two sons, together with Abhay Singh Chautala and Ajay Singh Chautala.
Abhay Singh Chautala is a an MLA from from the Ellenabad constituency of Haryana and has additionally been the Chief of Opposition within the Haryana Legislative Meeting from October 2014 until March 2019.
Om Prakash Chautala’s grandson, Dushyant Chautala, is the chief of Jannayak Janata Get together and has served because the deputy chief minister of Haryana. He’s additionally a former Member of Parliament within the Lok Sabha from the Hisar constituency.
Chautala’s entry in politics
Chautala was born in a small village close to Haryana’s Sirsa. His father, Chaudhary Devi Lal, performed a significant position within the creation of Haryana in 1966, served because the state’s chief minister, and later as India’s deputy prime minister. He additionally based the INLD get together in 1996. In accordance with data obtainable on the web, Chautala dropped out of college and selected politics, following his father’s path. In 1970, he was elected to Haryana’s legislative meeting as a member of the Janata Dal (Individuals’s Get together).
Chautala’s early political profession had some controversies. One main incident was in 1978 when he was detained on the Delhi airport for bringing numerous wristwatches into the nation. This led to a fallout together with his father, however Chautala later labored to rebuild his political picture. He led the “Nyaya Yudh” marketing campaign to help his father’s profitable bid within the 1987 elections and arranged protests towards corruption within the Nineteen Nineties. Nevertheless, in 1990, he confronted accusations of being concerned within the killing of a political opponent.
Chautala was elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1987 and served till 1990. In December 1989, he grew to become Haryana’s chief minister, changing his father who had been appointed because the deputy PM of India. Nevertheless, he was unable to safe a seat within the state meeting inside the required six months and needed to step down in Could 1990. He later gained a by-election and briefly served as chief minister once more in 1990-91.
After the Congress Get together gained the 1991 elections in Haryana, Chautala entered the meeting via a by-election in 1993. In 1995, he resigned as a protest towards a deal to share Haryana’s water with neighboring states. Chautala gained a seat within the 1996 elections and have become the opposition chief. The Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD) was shaped in 1998. In 1999, after the Haryana Vikas Get together misplaced its majority, Chautala grew to become chief minister for a fourth time.
Chautala has served because the CM of Haryana from December 1989 to Could 1990; July 1990 to July 1990; from March 1991 to April 1991 and, lastly, from July 1999 to March 2005.
