Sampat Singh (born 20 April 1949) is a former

Finance Minister A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

, India. As a

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

candidate, he was elected to the Haryana Legislative Assembly from the Bhattu Kalan constituency in 1982 and has been re-elected on five occasions. He was leader of the opposition from 1991 to 1996. His six election successes made him the most senior

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

legislator in 12th Haryana assembly. He has held many important portfolios in state government as minister.

Personal life

Sampat Singh was born in the village of

Bhattu Kalan Bhattu Kalan is a town in Fatehabad district of Haryana, India. Khurd and Kalan Persian language word which means small and Big respectively when two villages have same name then it is distinguished as Kalan means Big and Khurd means Small with ...

Fatehabad District Fatehabad District is one of the twenty two districts of the state of Haryana, India. Fatehabad was founded by Firuz Shah Tughlaq. Fatehabad district was carved out of Hisar district on 15 July 1997. It borders districts of Mansa and San ...

, on 20 April 1949. His father was Ram Chander.Educated in the village and at Hisar, he holds MA and B.Ed. degrees. He is married to Krishna Singh and has two children. Singh was a lecturer in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and la ...

at Dayanand College, Hisar for five years from 1972. He has been jailed several times, including in 1972-73 and 1983, while campaigning for various causes.

Career

State politics

Singh has been elected to the Haryana Legislative Assembly in

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, 1998,

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and

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. Singh was appointed at political secretary to

Devi Lal Chaudhary Devi Lal (born Devi Dayal; 25 September 1915 – 6 April 2001) was an Indian statesman who served as 6th Deputy Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1991 in the governments of V. P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar. Also popularly known as ...

in 1977 and held the post for two years. At this point, Devi Lal headed the

. Singh stood unsuccessfully in the Bhattu Kalan constituency by-election of 1980, claiming afterwards that he lost "because of widespread use of unfair means". He won the seat in the 1982 state assembly elections. Between 1991-1996, Singh was Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly. Heeding views of his close supporters, Singh quit the

Indian National Lok Dal Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party in India, in the state of Haryana. INLD was founded in October 1996 as Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Choudhary Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the V.P. Singh's Cabin ...

(INLD) on 14 July 2009 and held a meeting with his supporters and workers on 18 July 2009 in Hisar. He described the INLD as being in "complete disarray", no longer aligned with the principles of Devi Lal and subject to the nepotism of its then leader,

Om Prakash Chautala Om Prakash Chautala (born 1 January 1935) is an Indian politician from Haryana who served as a former Chief Minister of Haryana from Indian National Lok Dal and son of 6th Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal. Biography Chautala is the ...

. After ending his 32-year association with it, he joined the Indian National Congress (INC) on 27 July 2009. The INC selected Singh as their candidate for the Nalwa constituency in Hisar. He then won the seat in the 2009 elections by defeating the sitting member, Jasma Devi of the HJC.

National politics

As an INLD politician, Singh contested the

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from Hisar Lok Sabha constituency on a

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ticket. He lost narrowly to former chief minister

Bhajan Lal Bhajanlal Bishnoi (6 October 1930 – 3 June 2011) was a politician and three-time chief minister of the Indian state of Haryana. He became the Chief Minister for the first time in 1979, was re-elected in 1982, and became the chief minister for ...

. Singh stood as an INC candidate for a seat in the national parliament in the

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. He finished in third place in the Hisar Lok Sabha constituency.

Political career

* 1977- 1979: Political Secretary to Devi Lal, Chief Minister of Haryana * 1980: election conveyor for Devi Lal during

7th Lok Sabha List of Members of the 7th Lok Sabha, (18 January 1980 – 31 December 1984) elected December 1979 – January 1980. The Lok Sabha (House of the People) is the lower house in the Parliament of India nine sitting members from Rajya Sabha were el ...

elections * 1980: contested by-election from Bhattu Kalan * 1981: State Youth Party President until 1984, when he resigned at the age of 35 to make way for other youth members * 1982: elected to 6th Vidhan Sabha from Bhattu Kalan constituency. Member of the Scheduled Caste and Welfare Society of Haryana Vidhan Sabha * 1984: District Party President, Hisar until 1987 * 1987: elected to 7th Vidhan Sabha, Bhattu Kalan constituency, Minister of Industry, Excise & Taxation, Town & Country Planning, Home, Local Bodies, Jails, Public Relations, Irrigation & Power, Finance, Parliamentary Affairs & Planning * 1991: elected to 8th Vidhan Sabha, Bhattu Kalan constituency, Leader of Opposition, Haryana * 1996: contested election from Bhattu Kalan * 1998: elected to 9th Vidhan Sabha, Fatehabad constituency, Chairman, Assurance Committee, Haryana Vidhan Sabha * 1999: Cabinet Minister for Finance, Parliamentary Affairs & Planning * 2000: elected to 10th Vidhan Sabha, Bhattu Kalan constituency, Cabinet Minister for Finance, Parliamentary Affairs & Planning * 2005: contested election from Bhattu Kalan * 2008: by-election contested in Adampur

Positions held

*President, District Lok Dal, Hisar ; *Member State Lok Dal Executive *Member, Haryana Sangharsh Samiti *President, Haryana State Yuva Lok Dal *National General Secretary, Samajwadi Janata Party

References

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