Deepender Singh Hooda is an Indian politician who is currently a Rajya Sabha member from Haryana. He is a member of the Indian National Congress and remained a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Rohtak for three terms from 2005 to 2019. He was a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee, the Executive Committee of the Indian National Congress. He was the youngest MP when he entered politics in 2015 at the age of 27. He is the fourth generation of his family to serve in public service.
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Wiki/Biography
Diender Singh Hooda was born on Wednesday, January 4, 1978 (age 45; as of 2023) in Delhi. He graduated from Mayo College, Ajmer in 1993. He completed his secondary schooling from Delhi Public School, RK Puram, New Delhi in 1995. He completed his Bachelor of Technology degree from Maharishi Dayanand University in Rohtak, Haryana in 1999; He was the second leader in his class. In 2003, he pursued a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Strategy at Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business in Bloomington; He was awarded the honorary rank of Beta Gamma Sigma and appointed leader in residence for the university’s Poling Chair in Business and Government. He was the president of the university’s Asian Student Association. He completed his Bachelor of Laws in 2019 from the Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 6′0″
Hair color: black
Eye color: Balki
family
Deepender Singh Hooda belongs to Jaat family. The Jaats are traditionally a farming community found in the northern regions of India and Pakistan.
parents and siblings
Deepender Singh Hooda is the son of former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. His mother’s name is Asha Hooda.
Deep Singh Hooda with father Bhupinder Singh Hooda and mother Asha Hooda
wife and children
He is married twice. His first wife’s name is Geeta Grewal, who is a dentist; They separated from each other in 2005. On February 22, 2010, he married Hemsveta Mirdha. They have a son together.
Deepa Singh Hooda with his wife Hemsweta Mrida
Deepender Singh Hooda with his father, mother, wife and son
another family member
Deepender Singh Hooda’s great-grandfather was Choudhary Matu Ram Hooda, a politician, social reformer and freedom fighter who worked with Mahatma Gandhi in the independence movement and was one of the prominent leaders during the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1985.
Deepender Singh Hooda’s great grandfather, Choudhary Matu Ram Hooda
Diender’s grandfather’s name is Ranbir Singh Hooda who was a politician and served undivided Punjab and now Haryana later. He was a member of the 1st and 2nd Lok Sabha from Rohtak, Haryana and also a member of the Rajya Sabha. He was a freedom fighter, participated in the Satyagraha movement and was arrested in 1941.
Deepender Singh Hooda’s grandfather, Ranbir Singh Hooda
Address
VPO – Sanghi, Tehsil & District – Rohtak, Haryana
signature/autograph
Signature of Deepender Singh Hooda
Career
corporate
He started his career as a Process Engineer in the Fabric Manufacturing Division of Reliance Industries Limited in May 1999; He was assistant manager of offshore operations coordination when he retired in December 2000. He joined Infosys as a software engineer and worked there for nine months till August 2001. After completing his MBA in 2003, he started working as a senior manager of product strategy and marketing at Dalla Corporation, USA, at Saber Corporation; He worked there for more than two years.
politics
He joined the Indian National Congress Party in 2005 and contested the Lok Sabha by-election from Rohtak, Haryana and became a Member of Parliament. He was appointed as a member of the Foreign Affairs Advisory and Agriculture Committees. He won the 15th Lok Sabha elections in 2009 and became a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development and Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme. In 2014, he was again elected to the Lok Sabha for a third term from Rohtak and appointed as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy. During his 15-year tenure in the Rohtak Lok Sabha, he helped establish many educational institutions such as the Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, a state-of-the-art Cancer Center – AIIMS-II campus at Jhajjar and many sports centres, stadiums, government schools and colleges. In 2019, he contested the Lok Sabha elections from Rohtak constituency on an Indian National Congress ticket, but lost to Arvind Kumar Sharma of the Bhartiya Janta Party.
Singh Hooda’s deeper campaign during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
In 2020, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Haryana and on 22 July 2020, he was sworn in as a member of the Rajya Sabha.
A screenshot of Deepender Singh Hooda taking OT as a Rajya Sabha MP
From July 2020 to September 2022, he was a member of the Personnel, Public Complaints, Law and Justice Committee; During this period, he also became a member of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament (August 2020) and the Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Finance (November 2020). He became a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in September 2022 and a member of the Information and Communication Technology Management Committee in the Rajya Sabha in January 2023.
confrontations
Defamation case against Brij Bhushan
In January 2023, Indian wrestlers began a protest against Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the former BJP president of the Wrestling Federation of India, for allegedly sexually harassing female wrestlers. Speaking to ANI news reporter, Brij Bhushan said
90% of athletes and wrestlers of Haryana trust the Wrestling Federation of India. “Several families and girls who made the allegations belonged to the same ‘Akhada’… The patron of this ‘Akhada’ is Diender Hooda.”
When Deepender Singh Hooda was asked about the allegations, he said
I don’t know why he dragged our names. We will file a defamation case against him. Our wrestlers are fighting for justice and the whole nation supports them. An independent investigation should be conducted.”
Awards, honors, achievements
- He received the Bharat Asmita Jana Pratinidhi Shrestha Award in 2010 for his contribution to rural development through education and power generation.
- He was among the top 12 Indians in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders list in 2011.
- In 2019, he was conferred with the Best Parliamentary Award by Union Minister for Micro, Small and Enterprises Girraj Singh at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
Car collection
Deepender Singh Hooda owns a Ford Endeavour.
income
His income for the 2018-2019 financial year was 100 GEL. 74,76,600.
assets and properties
movable assets
- Bank deposits: Rs. 3,86,54,113
- Bonds, Bonds and Shares: Rs. 2,12,11,824
- Motor Vehicles: Rs. 35,36,100
real estate
- Agricultural land: Rs. 1,18,60,000
- Non-agricultural land: Rs. 1,29,00,000
- Commercial buildings: Rs. 7,85,00,000
Note: The given valuations of movable and immovable property are given as of 2019. It excludes assets owned by his spouse and dependents.
Net worth
Deepender Singh Hooda’s net worth for the financial year 2018-2019 was estimated at Rs. 17,37,34,128. It excludes the net assets of his spouse and dependents.
Facts/Trivia
- While pursuing his MBA, he chaired the Asian Business Conference leading a team of Asian students from 15 top business schools in the United States at Harvard University.
- In 2005, he received a job offer at McKinsey & Company, but he turned it down and returned to India, later joining politics.
- He has served as Board Member of Council of IITs and Vice Chairman of Indian Red Cross Society.
- While a member of the Lok Sabha, he was elected as the Chairman of the Indo-UK Parliamentary Forum.
- In 2017, he was part of the India-Japan Forum of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Fikki – FICCI) and visited Japan to strengthen ties between Japan and India.
- He joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra launched by Rahul Gandhi in September 2022.
Deepender Singh Hooda with Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra
- He has been a columnist for the Indian Express newspaper and writes on the Indian economy and international relations.
- He has a keen interest in reading history, the American Civil War, the Indian Freedom Movement, World War II, the French Revolution, Ancient Egypt, the Greeks and the Indus Valley Civilization, social economics, Marxism, capitalist economic models, and governance.
- His pastimes and pastimes are cricket, Haryana style wrestling and tennis.
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