Deepender Hooda: News

Deepender Singh Hooda is an Indian politician who is serving as the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from Haryana, as of 2021. He has served as a four-term MP from the Indian National Congress. He has also served three terms as a Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha representing Rohtak from 2005 to 2019. Hooda was born on January 4, 1978, in Delhi and holds a degree in law from Campus Law Center, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. Hooda’s father Bhupinder Singh Hooda was the former Chief Minister of Haryana and Hooda is the fourth generation of his family to be in public service. Hooda entered politics in 2005 and was the youngest parliamentarian at that time. During the 2005 by-elections from Rohtak, he was first elected into the Lower House of the Parliament. During his tenure of 15 years as Rohtak MP, Hooda has helped to establish India’s largest cancer institute at Jhajjar, an IIT extension campus, an IIM, FDDI, and IHM in his constituency. In 2011, he was named the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leader.