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 was a three-time Lok Sabha MP from Rohtak from 2005 to 2019. He has been a special invitee to the Executive Committee, Congress Working Committee of the Indian National Congress. He was the youngest member of Parliament when he joined politics in 2005 at the age of 27. He is the fourth generation of the family to serve in public service.
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Wiki/Biography
Deepender Singh Hooda was born on Wednesday, 4 January 1978 (age 45 years; as in 2023) in Delhi. He completed his matriculation from Mayo College, Ajmer in 1993. He completed his high school from Delhi Public School, RK Puram, New Delhi in 1995. He completed his Bachelor of Technology from Maharishi Dayanand University in Rohtak, Haryana in 1999; He was the second topper in his class. In 2003, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and Strategy from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington; She was awarded Honorary Beta Gamma Sigma and was appointed Leader-in-Residence of the Polling Chair of Business and Government at the university. He was the president of the Asian Students Association at the university. He completed his Bachelor of Laws from Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi in 2019.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx): 6′ 0″
Hair Color: Black
Eye color: Balk
Family
Deependra Singh Hooda is from a Jat family. Jats 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.
Deependra Singh Hooda with his father Bhupinder Singh Hooda and mother Asha Hooda
wife and children
He has married twice. His first wife’s name is Geeta Grewal, a dentist; They separated in 2005. He married Hemshweta Mirdha on 22 February 2010. He also has a son.
Deependra Singh Hooda with his wife Hemshweta Mridha
Deependra Singh Hooda with his father, mother, wife and son
other family members
Deependra Singh Hooda’s great-grandfather Chaudhary Matu Ram Hooda was a politician, social reformer and freedom fighter who worked with Mahatma Gandhi in the independence movement and was one of the prominent leaders at the time of the establishment of the Indian National Congress. Congress in 1985.
Deepender Singh Hooda’s great grandfather, Chaudhary Matu Ram Hooda
Deependra’s grandfather’s name is Ranbir Singh Hooda who was a politician and served undivided Punjab and later present-day Haryana. He was also a member of the first and second Lok Sabha and a member of the Rajya Sabha from Rohtak, Haryana. 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 and District-Rohtak, Haryana
signature/autograph
Signature of Deependra Singh Hooda
livelihood
incorporated
He started his career as a process engineer in the Fabric Manufacturing Division of Reliance Industries Limited in May 1999; At the time of his departure in December 2000, he was Assistant Manager, Offshore Operations Co-ordination. He joined Infosys as a software engineer and worked there for nine months until August 2001. After completing his MBA in 2003, he started working as a. Senior Manager in Product Strategy and Marketing at Saber Corporation, Dallas, USA; 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 Consultative Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture. He won the 15th Lok Sabha election in 2009 and became a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resource Development and the Committee on Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme. In 2014, he was again elected to the Lok Sabha for a third term from Rohtak and was appointed as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy. Rohtak During his 15-year tenure in the Lok Sabha, he helped establish several educational institutions such as the Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak, the state-of-the-art Cancer Center- AIIMS-II campus in Jhajjar, and several sports centres, stadiums, government schools, etc. College. In 2019, he contested the Lok Sabha election from Rohtak constituency on the Indian National Congress ticket, but lost to Arvind Kumar Sharma of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Deepender Singh Hooda campaigning during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
In 2020, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha from Haryana and on 22 July 2020, he took oath as a Rajya Sabha member.
A screengrab of Deepender Singh Hooda while taking oath as Rajya Sabha MP
From July 2020 to September 2022, he was a member of the Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice; During this period he also became a member of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament (August 2020) and the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Finance (November 2020). In September 2022, he became a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and in January 2023, a member of the Committee on Information and Communication Technology Management in the Rajya Sabha.
controversies
Defamation case against Brij Bhushan
In January 2023, Indian wrestlers started protests against former Wrestling Federation of India president BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on allegations of sexual harassment of female wrestlers. Speaking to an ANI news reporter, Brij Bhushan said
90% of athletes and parents of Haryana trust the Wrestling Federation of India. Some of the families and the girls who have made the allegations belong to the same ‘Akhada’…the patron of that ‘Akhada’ is Deepender Hooda.
When Deepender Singh Hooda was asked about the allegations, he said
I don’t know why they have dragged our name. We are filing a defamation case against him. Our wrestlers are fighting for justice and the entire country is supporting them. There should be an independent investigation.”
Awards, Honors, Achievements
- He received the Bharat Asmita Jan Pratinidhi Shrestha Award in 2010 for his work towards rural development through education and power generation.
- He was among the top 12 Indians in the World Economic Forum’s list of Young Global Leaders in 2011.
- In 2019, he was awarded the Best Parliamentarian Award by Union Minister for Micro, Small and Enterprise Giriraj Singh at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
car collection
Deependra Singh Hooda owns a Ford Endeavour.
Income
Their income for the financial year 2018-2019 is Rs. 74,76,600.
property and properties
movable property
- Bank Deposit: Rs. 3,86,54,113
- Bonds, Debentures and Shares: Rs. 2,12,11,824
- Motor Vehicle: Rs. 35,36,100
Immovable property
- Agricultural Land: Rs. 1,18,60,000
- Non-agricultural land: Rs. 1,29,00,000
- Commercial Building: Rs. 7,85,00,000
Note: The given estimate of movable and immovable assets is as per the year 2019. This does not include property owned by his wife and dependents.
net worth
Deepender Singh Hooda’s net worth for the financial year 2018-2019 was estimated to be Rs. 17,37,34,128. This does not include the total assets of his wife and dependents.
Facts/General Knowledge
- While studying for his MBA, he organized an Asian Business Conference, leading a team of Asian students from the top 15 business schools in the United States at Harvard University.
- In 2005, he received a job offer at McKinsey & Company but rejected it and returned to India and later joined politics.
- He has served as a board member of the IIT Council and vice president at the Indian Red Cross Society.
- During his tenure as a Lok Sabha member, he was elected as the Chairman of the India-UK Forum of Parliamentarians.
- In 2017, he was part of the India-Japan Forum of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and visited Japan to strengthen mutual relations between Japan and India.
- He joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra launched by Rahul Gandhi in September 2022.
Deepender Singh Hooda with Rahul Gandhi during Bharat Jodo visit
- He has been a columnist for the newspaper The Indian Express and has written about Indian economics and international affairs.
- He has a keen interest in reading subjects like History, American Civil War, Indian Independence Movement, World War II, French Revolution, Ancient Egypt, Greek and Indus Valley Civilization, Social Economics, Marxism, Capitalist Economic Model and Governance.
- His pastime and recreational activities are cricket, Haryana style wrestling and tennis.
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