Gurugram: Clearly, he believes that when life provides you lemons, you make lemonade. So, regardless of falling within the washroom and breaking each his legs, Haryana Minister Anil Vij is singing to blow away the ache.
On the night time between Sunday and Monday, the 72-year-old Vitality, Transport and Labor Minister fell within the rest room and broke each fibulas.
Since he has been suggested to relaxation for 3 weeks, it’s unlikely that he’ll handle to attend the price range session of the Haryana Meeting scheduled to start on February 20.
Inside hours of the accident, a video of Vij sitting on a chair, along with his injured leg on a desk, was launched, singing, “”.So, Sajini, what are you considering now?“From a 1960 Bollywood film”bombay ka bab“And buzzing.”Khajura na be jay rote rote‘.
“We have now to stay no matter life we have,” Vij advised ThePrint over cellphone from Ambala on Tuesday. “It is your option to stay your life crying or laughing. I favor to stay my life laughing and singing.”
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the singing minister
Generally known as an enthusiastic and unapologetic singer, Anil Vij ceaselessly begins singing regardless of having no excuse for breaking his leg.
In April 2023, he was noticed singing “”.ramaiya vasta vaiya“Starring Raj Kapoor”Sully 420I used to be resting on a park bench throughout my morning stroll. He was joined by about 20 different morning walkers on that event.
A month earlier, when singer B. Palak had referred to as him at his workplace, Viji had serenaded him with this:A younger one has been found in your soil.‘.
In February final 12 months, he was noticed shamelessly singing “.I went exterior and received a chair.in his workplace.
The songs vary throughout eras and moods, typically patriotic, typically romantic, at all times vizi.
Many slips…
When requested about his selection of numbers from his hospital mattress, the minister merely replied, “I wish to sing.” He mentioned he was a toilet singer and had many accidents attributable to loos.
In June 2020, when he was the Dwelling Minister of Haryana, he slipped within the rest room and fractured his hip.
In June 2025, I additionally fell within the rest room and broke my toe.
3 slips. Three fractures. If there’s a man in Haryana politics who is aware of how you can fall and are available again singing, literal or in any other case, it’s Anil Vij.
In March 2024, when the then CM Manohar Lal Khattar resigned and the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s Legislative Council met to elect Nayab Saini as the brand new CM, Vij left the venue in a huff. Saini downplayed the incident and mentioned she would go to Ambala to calm him down. However that by no means occurred, and Vij remained out of cupboard for the subsequent seven months. Nonetheless, instantly after the October 2024 elections, he was once more appointed as a minister in Saini’s cupboard.
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SP who mentioned “It isn’t my energy”
Simply three days earlier than the current fall, Vij was in Kaithal, chairing a gathering of the district grievance redressal committee, the place he was in his true colours.
The complainant, Sandeep Malik of Titram village, alleged {that a} sub-inspector named Sandeep Kumar had defrauded him of Rs 700,000 in a land buy contract. Upon listening to this, Vij ordered the instant suspension of the accused police officer.
Nonetheless, there was a small drawback. The ASI in query was posted on Kurukshetra, not Kaithal.
Kaithal SP Upasana Singh, an IPS officer, pointed this out. “Sir, it isn’t in my energy,” she advised the minister. “The Kurukshetra SP will take that call.”
“What do you imply you don’t have any energy?” he shot again. “After I say he’s suspended, you reply like this in each matter,” he advised her to jot down to the DGP. She mentioned she may write however not interrupt. He mentioned he advised her to go away if she did not have the authority. At one level he declared somewhat dramatically, receiving appreciative applause from these gathered.My orders are unfold all through Haryana” (My orders lengthen to all of Haryana).
Kaital’s confrontation was not a one-off. This was not the primary time that Vij had clashed in the identical SP or in the identical district.
In November 2015, Vij clashed with one other feminine IPS officer, Sangeeta Kalia, throughout a gathering of the District Grievance and Public Relations Committee in Fatehabad.
In November 2025, an identical grievance redressal assembly was held in Kaisar the place Mr. Vij received into an argument with a police officer over their failure to register zero FIR in a rip-off case. SP Upasana was additionally current on the spot and tried to clarify the police model of the incident.
When he took cost of the transportation division in October 2024, on his first day in workplace he suspended a bus station supervisor for soiled bathrooms. He conducts shock inspections of bus stops, energy vegetation, hospitals and authorities places of work throughout Haryana, and if he finds something uncommon, his first response is normally to get them organized to shut.
Enduring Ambala MLA
He gained the Ambala Meeting seat for the seventh consecutive 12 months in 2024 with a margin of seven,248 votes. He first turned an MLA in 1990, after Sushma Swaraj vacated the Rajya Sabha seat. He was out and in of presidency and fought two elections as an impartial earlier than discovering his manner again to the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering.
(Edited by Vinny Mishra)
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