Udai Bhan

Mr Udai Bhan was born in Hodal in Palwal distt. in Haryana.[4] His father Mr. Gaya Lal was a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly from the Hodal constituency in Palwal district. Contesting as an Independent candidate from Hassanpur, reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Gaya Lal defeated the Congress’s M Singh by 360 votes, garnering 10,458 votes against Singh’s 10,098 votes. Days later, he joined the Congress.[5] Mr Udai Bhan's grandfather Chaudhary Dharam Singh was also a noted politician and elected the chairman of Hodal municipal corporation several times between 1928 to 1942.[6]

Udai Bhan fought and won his first assembly election from Hassanpur in 1987 as a candidate of Lok Dal under the leadership of Chaudhary Devi Lal and won the seat twice thereafter — in 2000 as an Independent candidate and later in 2005 as a Congress candidate.[7] Udai Bhan was the chairman of the Krishak Bharati Cooperative (KRIBHCO) between 1989 and 1993 and joined the Congress in 1997.[8] Bhan won the Hodal (reserved) seat as a Congress candidate in 2014[9] but lost in the last assembly election to the BJP’s Jagdish Nayar with a very small margin of 3,387 votes.[10] He actively supported 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest which was a protest against three farm acts that were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020.[11] On 19 November 2021, the union government decided to repeal the bills,[64] and both houses of Parliament passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021 on 29 November.[12]

In April, 2022 Udai Bhan was appointed new state President of Haryana unit of Indian National Congress.[13][14]

Udai Bhan is married to Shakuntala Devi and they have 3 sons and one daughter.[15] Bhan’s elder son Raj Gopal and his younger son Devesh Kumar have also been in public life and been associated with the Congress.[16] Udai Bhan’s elder son Raj Gopal served as chairman, Municipal Council, Hodal, from 2016 to 2019.[17]