Political Career
- As a freedom fighter, He was secretary of Parja mandal in the Loharu State, from 1943 to 1944.
- Lal was president of the Bar Association, Bhiwani from 1957 to 1958. He was president of District Congress Committee, Hissar, from 1959 to 1962 and later became member of Congress Working Committee and Congress Parliamentary Board.
- He was a member of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee between 1958 and 1962.
- He was the Defence minister of India from December 1975 to March 1977.
- He was also the chairman of the Committee of Parliament and Committee on Public Undertakings, 1980–82, and the Committee on Estimates, 1982–84.
- He became railways minister on December 31, 1984 and later minister for transport.
- He was a Rajya Sabha member from 1960 to 1966 and 1976 to 1980. He was a Lok Sabha member—1980 to 1984, 1985 to 1986 and 1989 to 1991.
- After he parted company with Congress in 1996, Bansi Lal set up Haryana Vikas Party and his campaign against prohibition propelled him to power in the assembly polls the same year.
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