Gurugram: The Ahirwal belt in Haryana is understood for easy, hardy individuals famend for his or her bravery and patriotism from time immemorial. It, thus, comes as no shock that this area has its personal set of political households that command no much less point out than the dynasties of three Lals within the state — former chief ministers Bansi Lal, Devi Lal and Bhajan Lal.
The third era of three Ahirwal households are carrying ahead their dynastic legacies on this panorama comprising Mahendragarh, Rewari, and Gurugram districts. One among these households draw their lineage to Rao Tula Ram, a chieftain who took half within the First Conflict of Independence in 1857.
Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh, the son of Haryana’s second chief minister Rao Birender Singh, is the outstanding member of the Rampura Home from the erstwhile State of Rewari.
The Gurugram MP has two brothers Rao Ajit Singh and Rao Yadvendra Singh. Whereas Rao Inderjit Singh’s daughter Aarti Rao is a state government member of BJP in Haryana, Ajit Singh’s son Rao Arjun Singh is now related to the Congress celebration.
Rao Inderjit Singh, the Union Minister of State (Unbiased cost) for Statistics and Programme Implementation, was within the information for asking robust inquiries to the Manohar Khattar-led BJP authorities concerning the communal violence in Nuh.
Captain Ajay Singh Yadav, the son of Rao Abhay Singh, has been a six-time MLA from Rewari. Notably, his father had defeated Rao Birender Singh from Rewari in 1952. Ajay Singh’s son Chiranjeev Rao gained from Rewari as a Congress candidate in his debut election in 2019.
The third vital household from the area is the Budhpur Home established by Rao Mohar Singh. Mohar Singh is credited with opening the pre-Partition period first cooperative financial institution in Gurugram. His sons Rao Mahaveer Singh and Rao Vijayveer Singh went on to change into MLAs. Rao Mahaveer Singh’s son Rao Narbir Singh is a three-time MLA, together with his final win from Badshahpur as a BJP candidate in 2014.
Pawan Kumar Bansal, a political analyst on Haryana politics, mentioned that whereas all three dynasties have been energetic in Ahirwal area for nearly seven a long time, the one which began with Rao Birender Singh is probably the most influential.
“Rao Birender Singh and, now, Rao Inderjit Singh not solely gained election on their very own, no matter the celebration that fielded them, however they’ve the help base to get their supporters elected from different meeting seats of the Ahirwal belt,” Bansal advised ThePrint.
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Legacy of Rao Birender Singh
In February, a postal stamp was launched in reminiscence of Rao Birender Singh by the postal division. On the event, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar described Rao Birender Singh as a “widespread chief of the plenty, who at all times espoused the reason for the individuals, significantly the weaker sections of society and contributed so much to nation constructing.”
Rao Birender Singh had changed Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma to change into the second chief minister of Haryana, albeit for a brief interval from 24 March,1967 to 2 November, 1967. A descendant of freedom fighter Rao Tula Ram, Rao Birender Singh had served the British Indian Military from 1939 to 1947 and resigned as a Captain. From 1950 to 1951, he was with the Territorial Military as a commissioned officer.
His electoral debut was disastrous as he had misplaced to Rao Abhay Singh from Rewari in 1952. Rewari was then a part of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. He then joined the Congress in 1954 and was nominated as a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) for undivided Punjab and continued for 2 successive phrases until 1966.
Throughout this era, he remained a minister within the Partap Singh Kairon authorities with a number of vital ministries like PWD, Irrigation, Energy, Income, and Consolidation. Throughout this era, Rao Birender Singh was among the many leaders who repeatedly raised the demand for a separate state of Haryana.
After Haryana was carved out from Punjab in November 1966, Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma turned the primary chief minister and Rao Birender Singh turned the primary speaker of the newly shaped state.
Within the first meeting election held for Haryana in 1967, Rao Birender Singh was elected as a Congress candidate from Pataudi. He, nonetheless, defected from Congress and arrange his personal Vishal Haryana Occasion.
His crowning second got here when he was appointed the second chief minister of the state on 24 March, 1967. However in November 1967, the meeting was dissolved and Haryana was positioned beneath the President’s rule.
Governor B.N. Chakravarty had dismissed Rao Birender Singh’s authorities after he discovered two MLAs had switched sides twice with the Congress and the Vishal Haryana Occasion. These have been the years when Haryana first noticed the appearance of a tradition whereby elected representatives modified their loyalties with alacrity — encapsulated within the ‘Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram’ phrase coined none aside from by Rao Birender Singh, who himself fell sufferer to it.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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