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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Devi Lal <br />
|native_name = <br />
|image = Chaudhary Devi Lal stamp (cropped).jpg<br />
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|caption = Chaudhary Devi Lal from a 2001 stamp of India<br />
|office = 6th [[Deputy Prime Minister of India]]<br />
|primeminister = [[V. P. Singh]] and [[Chandra Shekar]] <br />
|term_start = 2 December 1989<br />
|term_end = 21 June 1991<br />
|predecessor = [[Yashwantrao Chavan]] (1980)<br />
|successor = [[L. K. Advani]] (2002)<br />
|office3 = [[List of Chief Ministers of Haryana|5th Chief Minister of Haryana]]<br />
|governor3 = Muzaffar Husain Burney <br />Hara Anand Barari <br />
|term_start3 = 17 July 1987<br />
|term_end3 = 2 December 1989<br />
|predecessor3 = [[Bansi Lal]]<br />
|successor3 = [[Om Prakash Chautala]]<br />
|governor4 = [[Jaisukh Lal Hathi]]<br />[[Harcharan Singh Brar]]<br />
|term_start4 = 21 June 1977<br />
|term_end4 = 28 June 1979<br />
|predecessor4 = [[Banarsi Das Gupta]]<br />
|successor4 = [[Bhajan Lal]]<br />
|birth_name = Devi Lal Sihag<br />
|birth_date = {{birth date|1914|9|25|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place =Teja Khera, [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]] <br />(now in [[Haryana]], [[India]])<br />
|death_date = {{death date and age|2001|4|6|1914|9|25|df=y}}<br />
|death_place = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]<br />
|party = [[Indian National Lok Dal]] (1996–2001)<br />
|otherparty = [[Indian National Congress]] (before 1971)<br/>[[Independent (politician)|Independent]] (1971–1977)<br/>[[Janata Party]] (1977–1987)<br/>[[Janata Dal]] (1988–1990)<br/>[[Samajwadi Janata Party]] (1990–1996)<br />
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'''Chaudhary Devi Lal''' (born '''Devi Lal'''; 25 September 1914 – 6 April 2001) was an Indian statesman who served as 6th [[Deputy Prime Minister of India]] from 1989 to 1991 in the governments of [[V. P. Singh]] and [[Chandra Shekhar]].<ref name=nytdevilal>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/16/world/devi-lal-86-expert-in-weaving-his-way-through-indian-politics.html |title=Devi Lal, 86, Expert in Weaving His Way Through Indian Politics |first=Paul |last=Lewis |work= NY Times |date=16 April 2001|access-date=5 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="toidevilal">{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/news/devi-lal-original-tau-of-indian-politics-popular-farmer-leader/videoshow/65937369.cms |title=Devi Lal: Original Tau of Indian politics, popular farmer leader |work= Times of India| date=25 September 2018| access-date=5 March 2020}}</ref> Also popularly known as '''Tau''' (uncle), Lal emerged as farmer leader from the state of [[Haryana]], and served as the [[Chief Minister of Haryana]] first in 1977-79 and then in 1987-89.<ref name="toidevilal"/><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Chaudhary Devi Lal was born on 25 September 1914 in Teja Khera village of [[Sirsa district]] in present-day Haryana. His mother's name was Shugna Devi and father's name was Lekh Ram Sihag. Lekh Ram was a [[Jat]] of Chautala village and he owned 2750 bighas of land. He received education up to middle-school.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Sirsa Town|year = 1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G0Z457ZOR44C&pg=PA241|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distri|page=241}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=September 2020}} His son [[Om Prakash Chautala]] has also served as Haryana's chief minister four times.<br />
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Lal's ancestral roots lie in [[Bikaner]], Rajasthan, from where his great-grandfather Tejaram had migrated. His father Lekhram relocated to Chautala village in 1919 when Lal was five years old. In 1928 at the age of 16 Lal participated in demonstration by [[Lala Lajpat Rai]]. He was a student of ''"Dev Samaj Public High School Moga"'' in [[Moga, Punjab|Moga]] during his 10th class, at that time was arrested at Congress office in 1930, he quit studies and joined freedom movement. He also took wrestling lesson at an [[Akhara]] in [[Badal, Punjab|Badal]] village of Punjab. He was first elected MLA in 1952.<ref name=polly4>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Om-Prakash-Chautalas-ancestors-came-from-Rajasthan/articleshow/18175626.cms |title=Om Prakash Chautala's ancestors came from Rajasthan |work=The Times of India |date=25 January 2013 |access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref><br />
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Lal comes from a [[Political families of Haryana#Chautala clan|prolific political dynasty of Haryana]]. His elder brother Sahib Ram Sihag was the first politician from the family who became Congress MLA from Hisar in 1938 and 1947.<ref name=polly1>{{cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/bahu-naina-broke-glass-ceiling-of-chautala-family-politics-5553039/ |title=Bahu Naina broke glass ceiling of Chautala family politics] |work=The Indian Express |date=24 January 2019 |access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref> Lal had four sons, Partap Singh, Om Prakash Chautala, Ranjit Singh and Jagdish Chander. All joined politics except Jagdish who died at a young age. His eldest son, Partap Singh, was an MLA from Indian National Lok Dal in the 1960s.<ref name="polly3">{{cite news|date=15 November 2018|title=In Chautala, villagers say family feud no surprise|work=The Indian Express|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/in-chautala-villagers-say-family-feud-no-surprise-5447040/|access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref><br />
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==Independence movement==<br />
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Lal was a follower of [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was involved in the struggle for India's independence from the [[British Raj]]. Both he and his elder brother, Sahib Ram, left their studies unfinished to take part in the freedom movement.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}<br />
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For this, he was sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment and sent to [[Hisar (city)|Hissar]] jail on 8 October 1930. He took part in the movement of 1932 and was kept in Sadar Delhi Thana. In 1938 he was selected delegate of [[All-India Congress Committee]]. In March 1938 his elder brother was elected a [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the Legislative Assembly]] in a by-election on the [[Indian National Congress|Congress party]] ticket. In January 1940, Sahib Ram courted arrest as a ''[[satyagrahi]]'' in the presence of Lal and over ten thousand people. He was fined Rs 100 and sentenced to 9&nbsp;months imprisonment.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}<br />
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Lal was arrested on 5 October 1942 and kept in jail for two years for taking part in the 1942 [[Quit India]] movement. He was released from prison in October 1943 and he negotiated parole for his elder brother. In August 1944, [[Chhotu Ram]], the then Revenue Minister, visited [[Chautala]] village. He, along with Lajpat Rai Alakhpura, made efforts to woo both Sahib Ram and Lal to desert Congress and join the [[Unionist Party (Punjab)|Unionist Party]]. But both workers, being dedicated freedom fighters, refused to leave the Congress Party.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}}<br />
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==Post independence==<br />
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=== Pre-1960: Punjab Assembly politics ===<br />
After independence, Lal emerged as a popular farmer leader in the 1950s and started a farmers' movement, for which he was arrested along with his 500 workers. After some time, then chief minister, [[Gopi Chand Bhargava]], made an agreement and the Muzzara Act was amended. He was elected a member of the Punjab Assembly in 1952 and President of the Punjab Congress in 1956.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} In 1958, he was elected from [[Sirsa, Haryana|Sirsa]].<br />
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=== Pre-1980: Haryana Assembly politics ===<br />
He played an active and decisive role in the formation of [[Haryana]] as a separate state. In 1971 he left Congress. In 1972 vidhan sabha elections, he contested unsuccessfully against the two Congress heavyweights, Bansi Lal in [[Tosham (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Tosham]] constituency and Bhajan Lal in Adampur seat.<ref>{{cite web |title=Haryana 1972 |url=https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3818-haryana-1972/ |website=Election Commission of India |access-date=8 February 2021 |language=en-IN}}</ref> In 1974 he successfully contested in the Rori constituency. In 1975, [[Indira Gandhi]] declared [[The Emergency (India)|the Emergency]] and Lal along with all opposition leaders were jailed for 19 months. In 1977, the emergency ended and [[1977 Indian general election|general elections]] were held. He was elected on the [[Janata Party]] ticket from Bhattu Kalan and became the [[Chief Minister of Haryana]].<ref name="toidevilal" /><br />
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=== Post-1980: national and state politics ===<br />
He remained a [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]] from 1980 to 1982 and was a member of State assembly between 1982 and 1987. He formed [[Lok Dal]] and started Nyaya Yuddh (en. battle for justice), under the banner of Haryana Sangharsh Samiti, and became hugely popular among masses. In the 1987 state elections, the alliance led by Lal won a record victory winning 85 seats in the 90 member house. Congress won the other five seats. Lal became the chief minister of Haryana for the second time. In the [[1989 Indian general election|1989 parliamentary election]], he was simultaneously elected, both from [[Sikar]], Rajasthan and [[Rohtak]], Haryana. He became deputy prime minister of the country from 1989 to 1991 in the non-Congress governments of VP Singh and Chandra Shekhar<ref name="toidevilal"/> He was elected to [[Rajya Sabha]] in August 1998. Later, his son [[Om Prakash Chautala]] also became the chief minister of Haryana.<ref name="The Jat patriarch">{{cite magazine|title=The Jat patriarch|url=http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1809/18091200.htm|magazine=Frontline|date=April 2001|author=Sukumar Muralidharan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315234640/http://www.frontline.in/static/html/fl1809/18091200.htm|archive-date=15 March 2014|access-date=2 March 2021}}</ref><br />
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Lal died on 6 April 2001 at the age of 85. He was cremated at [[Raj Ghat and other memorials|Sangarsh Sthal]] on the banks of the river [[Yamuna]] in New Delhi. "Kisan Ghat" is the samadhi of another popular leader of the farmers, [[Charan Singh]], the fifth [[Prime Minister of India]].<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[First Devi Lal ministry (1977–1979)]]<br />
* [[Second Devi Lal ministry (1987–1989)]]<br />
* [[Aaya Ram Gaya Ram]]<br />
* [[Political families of Haryana|Dynastic politics of Haryana]]<br />
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