Introduction
Kaptan Birdhana is a member of Bhartiya Janta Party and hails from Jhajjar district in Haryana, located 55 km west of Delhi. He recently contested Haryana State Assembly Elections as the BJP MLA candidate from Jhajjar constituency. Currently, he serves as the elected Chairman of Jhajjar Zila Parishad (also known as District Council).
He has over 13 years of experience in active politics. During his political journey, he has undertaken numerous tasks to uplift the impoverished and downtrodden.
Background
Having born in a family of landless farmers and labourers, he has experienced poverty very closely. After completing his school education, he went on to pursue Diploma in Civil Engg but dropped out due to financial constraints. Then he worked in a few private companies as a sales man. With god’s grace, he started his own business in 1998 and then eventually ventured into various businesses ranging from trade to manufacturing, retail to distributorship. Currently he is engaged into mining business.
Haryana Legislative Elections – 2014
In the Haryana Legislative Assembly Elections 2014, he contested as an independent candidate and showed a stupendous performance. 5,048 people showed their unconditional support through casting their vote in favour of him, resulting in him getting fourth-position in the contest, leaving behind 10 candidates belonging to national parties like Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), etc and along with some former Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs).
In that elections, this figure stood at 25% of total votes polled for Bhartiya Janta Party, the party which formed government in Haryana; equal to 20% of total votes polled for Indian National Lok Dal, Haryana’s largest regional party of that time, and equal to 10% of total votes polled for Indian National Congress.