Overview

• The Congress named Rao Narender Singh as Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee president and appointed former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda as leader of the Congress Legislature Party.
• The changes end an informal two-decade pattern in which a Jat led the CLP and a Dalit headed the state unit, as reported by India Today.
• Hooda’s elevation follows months without a CLP head after the assembly elections, closing a prolonged vacancy in the party’s legislature leadership.
• PTI reporting indicates the decision reflected internal pressure, with most Congress MLAs in Haryana backing Hooda for the CLP role.
• Rao Narender Singh, a former Haryana health minister from Narnaul, succeeds Udai Bhan, who became state unit chief in April 2022.