Chandigarh: Though the Congress tally in the state Assembly came down to 40 from 67 in the last elections, Bhupinder Singh Hooda has been rewarded with a second term as Chief Minister of Haryana.
Hooda, who was chosen to head the Congress Legislature Party in Haryana by party President Sonia Gandhi, has come a long way in his political career from being a block president in his native area Kiloi in Rohtak district 37 years ago to becoming the Chief Minister of the state for the second time.
The 62-year-old Jat leader was made the president of the Haryana Pradesh Youth Congress from 1982-1983 and remained the chairman of the Panchayat Samiti and Panchayat Parishad from 1983-1987.
Hooda was first elected to the 10th Lok Sabha in 1991 and the following year he was made the member of the All India Congress Committee. In 1994, Hooda was made a Member, Executive Committee of Congress Parliamentary Party (Indira).
He was re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha in 1996, which was his 2nd term and made a member, Committee on Agriculture during 1996-97 and was the president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee in 1997.
In the following year, he made his third entry to the Lok Sabha.
During 1998-99 he was made member of three committees - on Agriculture, Subordinate Legislation and Consultative Committee, Ministry of Communications.
Hooda was elected to the Haryana assembly in 2000 from Kiloi constituency and was the leader of Opposition in the House from 2002-2004.
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