Kuldeep Bishnoi

Background

Kuldeep Bishnoi was born on 22 September 1968 at Mandi Adampur, Hisar district, Haryana.

Career

Prior to this, he was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha and had represented the constituency of Bhiwani. In August 2014, he formed an alliance with Venod Sharma to strengthen his position for forthcoming assembly elections. In negotiations that followed the election, five of the six elected representatives transferred their support to the Indian National Congress in exchange for ministerial positions.

He contested the 2009 Haryana Assembly Elections from Adampur and defeated Jai Prakash, a Congress candidate and former Union Minister.

Ajay Singh Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Jai Prakash of the governing Congress party were among the numerous candidates who were defeated. Prakash and 38 others lost their deposits.

The election gained national attention because it occurred during the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement. In September 2013, Bishnoi declared his support for the Bharitya Janta Party by backing the party’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi with his party (Haryana Janhit Congress Business Level) support.

He also ruled out the possibility of his return to Congress, who had offered him posts twice, which he had refused to take up.

On 28 August 2014, Bishnoi declared his alliance with Venod Sharma of the Haryana January Chetna party for the ensuing assembly elections in Haryana.

Achievements

• The party fielded candidates in 89 of the 90 constituencies for the state assembly elections held in October 2009 and won six of those seats. Kuldeep Bishnoi won the Hisar 2011 Lok Sabha by-election, following the death of his father.

Politics

Bishnoi and his father, Bhajan Lal, founded the HJC (Business Level) regional political party in the Indian state of Haryana.