Udai Bhan

Udai Bhan (born 2 November 1955) is an Indian politician and a member of the Indian National Congress. He has been president of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee. He is former four-time elected Member of Haryana's Legislative Assembly (MLA). He represented Haryana's Hodal constituency from 2014 to 2019. He previously also represented the former constituency of Hassanpur in 1987, 2000 and 2005.

Early life Udai Bhan was born to Gaya Lal in the modern-day Palwal district of Haryana. In 1985, the Congress government amended the constitution to prevent such incidents under the Anti-defection law.

Ch. Udai Bhan's grandfather Dharam Singh was also a noted politician and was elected as the Chairman of Hodal Municipal Corporation several times between 1927 and 1942. Udai Bhan was the chairman of the Krishak Bharati Cooperative (KRIBHCO) between 1989 and 1993 and joined the Congress in 1997. Bhan won the Hodal (reserved) seat as a Congress candidate in 2014 but lost in the last assembly election to the BJP's Jagdish Nayar with a very small margin of 3,387 votes. 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. On 19 November 2021, the union government decided to repeal the bills, and both houses of Parliament passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021 on 29 November.

In April 2022 Udai Bhan was appointed as the new State President of Haryana unit of Indian National Congress.

Personal life Udai Bhan is married to Shakuntala Devi and they have three sons and one daughter. Udai Bhan's younger son Raj Gopal served as chairman, Municipal Council, Hodal, from 2016 to 2019.