Chaudhary Birendra Singh is a popular name in Haryana politics. Birendra Singh became MLA from Uchana for the first time in 1977. Nana Chau lived about 42 years. The heirs of Chhotu Ram’s political legacy remained. When he left the Congress and joined the BJP in 2014, the party made him a cabinet minister at the Center without contesting elections. Sent his wife as an MLA to the Lok Sabha and his son who quit his job as an IAS officer and joined politics. What the Congress could not give in its 42-year political career, the BJP has achieved in just under ten years. The factionalism that has reached its peak in the party is seen as the main reason for the delay in the distribution of Lok Sabha tickets.
..and a dream remained unfulfilled
Although the BJP has given Birendra Singh everything in the last decade, starting as a cabinet minister at the Centre, his dream of becoming the chief minister remained unfulfilled here too. His pain was felt many times after his son got the ticket and became a pastor in 2019. After the MLA’s wife’s defeat in his ancestral seat in the 2019 elections, the MP returned to the Congress for the same reason he left the Congress a decade ago. However, during his time in the BJP, Birendra Singh made a successful political start by appointing his wife Premlata as an MLA in 2014 and IAS son Brijendra Singh as an MP in 2019. The work he was never able to do during his 42 years in Congress.
As soon as he received the position of minister, he began to show his attitude.
After becoming a minister, Birendra Singh often made the government uncomfortable with his statements and when Birendra Singh felt the sound of his son’s ticket being cut in 2024, he sent his son first to the Congress and together on April 9 with his wife and supporters after receiving nearly $300,000 10 years later, he left the lotus position of the BJP and joined the Congress. Birendra Singh, who is often in the headlines for his statements, has directly challenged the party leadership. From Hisar, BJP has fielded Devi Lal’s son Ranjit Chautala and JJP Naina Chautala.
I claimed the ticket for my son
If the Congress wants to field a non-Jat face, former deputy chief minister Chandramohan, then Birendra Singh has already staked claim on his son Brijendra Singh’s candidature before joining the Congress. Due to this, factionalism in the Congress, which is divided into SRK and Hooda camps, may increase more than before. Even though Birendra Singh won’t quit the Congress if his son doesn’t get the ticket, he won’t miss an opportunity to embarrass the party with his statements.
Reread the same script after 10 years
When Birendra Singh joined the BJP after a rally in Jind, he expressed anger over his inability to become chief minister by targeting the Congress leadership. Birendra Singh, who became a cabinet minister in the Modi cabinet without contesting the Lok Sabha elections, had said that the respect that the Congress could not give him in 42 years was given to him by the BJP in a few months. When Birendra Singh joined the BJP in the presence of Amit Shah, he read ballads in praise of the BJP and Modi, and when he returned to the Congress after a decade, he did not hesitate to praise Rahul along with Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi. In such a situation, it would not be wrong to say that Birendra Singh had read the BJP and Modi leadership script when he left the Congress a decade ago, while on Tuesday he also read the Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia leadership script when he joined the Congress had read Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Many challenges ahead of Birendra Singh
Former Union Minister Ch Birendra Singh may have more than half a century of political experience, but he will face many tough challenges in 2024. The biggest challenge in the state Congress is to bypass Bhupendra Singh Hooda’s veto and get his MP son Brijendra Singh from Hisar for Lok Sabha and his wife Premlata from Uchana a ticket for the post-Lok Sabha assembly elections this year. Bhupendra Hooda’s first choice for the Hisar seat in the Lok Sabha elections is former deputy chief minister Chandramohan Bishnoi. After that, former Union Minister Jaiprakash alias JP. Bhupendra Singh Hooda wants Brijendra to contest the assembly elections from Uchana instead of Lok Sabha from Hisar.
Even if you get the ticket, the path to victory won’t be easy.
If Birendra Singh somehow manages to get the Lok Sabha ticket for his MP son Brijendra Singh, then Hooda will try to field one of his special supporters in place of Premlata in the assembly elections. Who have been working in this area for a long time. In the changed circumstances, it will not be easy for Birendra Singh to bypass Hooda and win the election of his son to the Lok Sabha and his wife to the Assembly. The credibility of Birendra Singh himself is not the same as before and Brijendra Singh did not quite manage to leave his mark on the public as an MP and Premlata as an MLA.
