December 20,2024: Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) supremo and former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala passed away in Gurugram on Friday, December 20, at the age of 89. Om Prakash Chautala died after a cardiac arrest.
Om Prakash Chautala, son of former Deputy Prime Minister of India Chaudhary Devi Lal, served as the seventh chief minister of Haryana.
Chautala was awarded a four-year jail term in a 16 years old disproportionate assets case on 27 May 2022 by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Court and became the oldest prisoner of the Delhi’s Tihar jail aged 87. He was released in 2020.
Om Prakash Chautala’s wife Sneh Lata died in August 2019. Chautala has three daughters and two sons, including Abhay Singh Chautala and Ajay Singh Chautala.
Abhay Singh Chautala is a an MLA from from the Ellenabad constituency of Haryana and has also been the Leader of Opposition in the Haryana Legislative Assembly from October 2014 till March 2019.
Om Prakash Chautala’s grandson, Dushyant Chautala, is the leader of Jannayak Janata Party and has served as the deputy chief minister of Haryana. He is also a former Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from the Hisar constituency.
