Nalwa is a village located in Hisar, India. It was named after Sardar Balwant Singh Nalwa, its Deputy Commissioner during the British Raj, when Haryana was an integral part of undivided Punjab. Balwant Singh Nalwa was the fifth generation descendant of the Sikh General Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa.
Hisar became a new constituency in the state of Haryana in the 2008 delimitation exercise. Earlier, most of the villages of this constituency were under Adampur, a stronghold of Bhajan Lal. Some of the villages were earlier with the Bawani Khera Constituency.
Nalwa is a small village on Tosham-Hisar road, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Tosham. Nalwa village is the native village of O. P. Jindal, an industrialist. His son Naveen Jindal is Member of Parliament from Kurukshetra, Haryana.
Nalwa constituency is currently represented by an ex-minister of Haryana and senior Congress leader of the Haryana State Assembly, Professor Sampat Singh. He won the October 2009 elections with a margin of 10,901 votes, defeating Jasma Devi of the Haryana Janhit Congress. Jasma Devi is the wife of Bhajan Lal and this was the first defeat of the Bhajanlal clan in Haryana state politics. This defeat led to the downfall of Bhajanlal's Haryana Janhit Congress in literal terms for just after winning, five out of total six MLAs of Haryana Janhit Congress left the HJC and joined the Congress.
Mayapuri, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) on the Nalwa-Tosham road forms a small part of Nalwa.
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