Three-time BJP MP from Ambala and former Union minister Rattan Lal Kataria, who died Thursday, had a penchant for poetry and childhood ardour for singing which he put to good use in politics.

Born in 1951 at Sandhali village of Yamunanagar’s Radaur block, Kataria had obtained an award from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for his singing abilities when he was 13.

In the 2004 Lok Sabha polls, and within the subsequent elections he fought, Kataria used his melodious voice to hunt votes for the BJP. Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar whereas recalling Kataria’s cheerful nature and stated it endeared leaders not solely from the social gathering however throughout the political spectrum. Kataria got here from a humble background and rose to change into a Union minister by way of exhausting work, he stated. The CM stated Kataria had good relations with Narendra Modi, who would ask about him at social gathering conferences.

“He might be remembered for his wealthy contribution in the direction of public service and social justice. He performed a key function in strengthening the BJP in Haryana,” Modi tweeted.

Kataria joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) throughout early Nineteen Seventies when he was pursuing Bachelor of Arts from Ambala Cantonment’s SD College.

Maan Singh from Mandhar village, who had been with Kataria since his youth, stated: “While he led the Ladwa shakha, I used to be tehsil karyawahak in Radaur. It was on the RSS the place we each discovered the right way to work for the society.

Former MLA from Radaur Karn Dev Kamboj stated: “In 1979, we attended a week-long RSS camp in Delhi together. We lived in the same room in Karol Bagh for the camp and became friends.”

When Kataria gifted Vajpayee a pair of ‘desi juttis’

Ambala City MLA Aseem Goel shared how Kataria gifted a ‘desi juttis’ made by his father Jyoti Ram to BJP stalwart and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. “In 1990, Kataria was an MLA from Radaur when he met Vajpayeeji. He managed to take Vajpayeeji’s foot imprint on a paper and later made a ‘desi juttis’ along with his father’s assist for the BJP veteran,” added Goel.

During the monsoon session of Parliament in 2021, Kataria took his aged father to Delhi and shared heart-touching photos of their prepare journey and Parliament go to. As an MP within the seventeenth Lok Sabha, his attendance remained at 99%, a lot above the nationwide common of 79% and state’s 92%.