[2] He set up Haryana Vikas Party after parting ways with the Indian National Congress in 1996.

[2] He was born on 26 August 1927 to Choudhary Mohar Singh and Shrimati Vidya Devi[3] belonging to Hindu Jat community[4] in the village of Golagarh in Bhiwani district, British Punjab (now Haryana).

[5] The mother of Bansi Lal belongs to the Village Rudrol of Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana, India.

He was the third chief minister of Haryana after Bhagwat Dayal Sharma and Rao Birender Singh.

After Haryana was formed in 1966, much of the state's industrial and agricultural development, especially creation of infrastructure, took place due to Lal's initiatives.

He was responsible for electrifying all villages in Haryana during his tenure as chief minister in the late sixties and seventies.

Lal became one of the first Chief Ministers to visit Israel, when he led a delegation of agriculturalists and sarpanches to the country in 1971.

[8] In other instances he tamed press critical of him like the Tribune at Chandigarh, by denying it government advertisements and using the police to fine vehicles that carried the paper to Haryana.

The journalist Makhan Lal Kak who reported this story was locked up on the very first day of the emergency, while the deputy superintendent who took part in this was given a promotion.

The Shah Commission of Inquiry which was formed at end of the Emergency noted that Lal often misused his official position for personal reasons.