Dushyant Chautala

Dushyant Chautala
Chautala in 2024
6th Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana
In office
27 October 2019 – 12 March 2024
GovernorSatyadev Narayan Arya
Bandaru Dattatreya
Chief MinisterManohar Lal Khattar
Preceded byChander Mohan
Succeeded byTBA
President of Jannayak Janta Party
Assumed office
9 December 2018
Preceded byOffice Established
Member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly
In office
24 October 2019 – 8 October 2024
Preceded byPremlata Singh
Succeeded byDevender Attri
ConstituencyUchana
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
16 May 2014 – 23 May 2019
Preceded byKuldeep Bishnoi
Succeeded byBrijendra Singh
ConstituencyHisar
Executive Member, Indian Olympic Association
Assumed office
14 July 2019
President, Table Tennis Federation of India
Assumed office
30 January 2017
Personal details
Born (1988-04-03) 3 April 1988 (age 36)
Hisar, Haryana, India
Political partyJannayak Janta Party
Other political
affiliations
Indian National Lok Dal (till December 2018)
SpouseMeghna Ahlawat (m.2017)
ChildrenRamya (Daughter)
Parents
Alma materCalifornia State University (BSc)
National Law University, Delhi (LLM)
Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (MA Mass Communication)
OccupationPolitician

Dushyant Singh Chautala (born 3 April 1988) is an Indian politician who served as the 6th Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana from 2019 to 2024.[1] He represented the Uchana Kalan[2] constituency in Haryana Legislative Assembly from 2019 until 2024 and was sworn-in as Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana upon making an alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party after the 2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election.[3]

He is the co-founder and president of the Jannayak Janta Party or JJP, a party which was split from the Indian National Lok Dal. He founded the party on 9 December 2018.[1]

He has also served as a Member of Parliament in the 16th Lok Sabha representing the Hisar constituency from the Indian National Lok Dal from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, he lost his seat under the JJP to the Bharatiya Janata Party.[4] He has also been the President of Table Tennis Federation of India since 2017 and Executive Member of Indian Olympic Association since 2019.The JJP suffered a drubbing by the hands of the saffron tsunami in the state of Haryana in 2024 Assembly elections , where the BJP stormed back to power for the third consecutive time in the state.

  1. ^ a b Dec 9, PTI. "INLD splits; Dushyant Chautala announces launch of Jannayak Janata Party | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 October 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "'Missing' posters of Dushyant Chautala, Hisar MP appear in Jind's Uchana". Hindustan Times. 2 January 2023.
  3. ^ Oct 28, PTI. "Haryana CM, deputy CM both promise to give state a 'stable, honest' govt | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 October 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Election Results 2014 – North: Powered by Modi, BJP sweeps Delhi, Himachal and Uttarakhand". The Indian Express. 16 May 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2019.