Gurugram: Clearly, he believes in making lemonade when life provides him lemons. And so, even with each legs fractured in a washroom fall, Haryana minister Anil Vij is singing his ache away.

On the intervening night time of Sunday and Monday, the 72-year-old power, transport and labour Minister fell in his washroom, breaking his fibula in each legs.

Inside hours of the accident, a video surfaced by which Vij was seen sitting on a chair, along with his injured legs resting on a desk, singing ‘Chal ri sajni ab kya soche‘ from the 1960 Bollywood movie ‘Bombay ka babu‘, and buzzing ‘Kajra na beh jaye rote rote‘.

“We now have to stay no matter life we get,” Vij instructed ThePrint from Ambala over the telephone Tuesday. “It’s your selection—you reside life crying or laughing. I choose to stay with laughter and singing.”

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The singing minister

Referred to as an enthusiastic and unapologetic singer, Anil Vij breaks into track usually, even with out the excuse of a damaged leg.

In April 2023, he was noticed singing ‘Ramaiya vasta vaiyaah‘ from the Raj Kapoor starrer ‘Shree 420‘, when resting on a park bench throughout his morning stroll. About 20 different morning walkers joined him on that event.

A month earlier than that, when singer B. Parak got here calling at his workplace, Vij serenaded him with ‘Teri mitti mein mil jawan‘.

In February final yr, he was discovered unabashedly singing ‘Essential nikla gaddi le ke‘ in his workplace.

The songs vary throughout many years and moods, typically patriotic, typically romantic, at all times Vij.

Many a slip…

“I like singing,” the minister mentioned merely, when requested about his selection of numbers from his sickbed. He mentioned he was a toilet singer, and the toilet had given him many accidents.

In June 2020, when he was Haryana dwelling minister, he slipped in a toilet and fractured his hip bone.

Once more in June 2025, one other washroom fall fractured his toe.

Three slips. Three fractures. If there’s a man in Haryana politics who is aware of find out how to take a fall—actually and in any other case—and are available again singing, it’s Anil Vij.

In March 2024, when the then CM Manohar Lal Khattar resigned and the BJP’s legislature get together met to elect Nayab Saini as the brand new CM, Vij walked out of the venue in a huff. Enjoying down the incident, Saini mentioned he would go to Ambala and calm him down. However that by no means occurred and Vij remained out of the cupboard for the subsequent seven months. Nevertheless, instantly after the October 2024 elections, he was sworn in once more as a minister in Saini’s cupboard.

 

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The SP who mentioned ‘It’s not in my energy’

Simply three days earlier than his newest fall, Vij had been in Kaithal, chairing a district grievance redressal committee assembly, the place he was very a lot in his pure ingredient.

A complainant, Sandeep Malik of Titram village, alleged that an assistant sub-inspector named Sandeep Kumar had defrauded him of Rs 7 lakh in a land buy deal. Listening to this, Vij ordered the fast suspension of the accused officer.

There was a small drawback, although. The ASI in query was posted in Kurukshetra, not Kaithal.

Kaithal SP Upasana Singh, an IPS officer pointed this out. “Sir, it isn’t in my energy,” she instructed the minister. “The Kurukshetra SP will take that call.”

“What do you imply you don’t have the ability?” he shot again. “When I’m saying droop him… you reply like this in each matter.” He instructed her to put in writing to the DGP. She mentioned she might write, however not droop. He reportedly instructed her to exit if she had no authority. At one level, he declared, with appreciable drama and to appreciative applause from these gathered: “Mera order saare Haryana mein chalta hai” (my order runs throughout all of Haryana).

The Kaithal confrontation was not a one-off. It was not even the primary time Vij had clashed with the identical SP, or in the identical district.

In November 2015, Vij clashed with one other lady IPS officer Sangeeta Kalia throughout a gathering of the district grievances and public relations committee at Fatehabad.

In November 2025 the same grievance redressal assembly in Kaithal had seen Vij get into an argument with a police officer over the latter’s failure to register a zero FIR in a fraud case. SP Upasana was current then too, and tried to elucidate the police model of occasions.

When he was given the transport portfolio in October 2024, he suspended a bus stand supervisor on his very first day in workplace for sustaining an unclean rest room. He has carried out shock inspections of bus stands, energy stations, hospitals and authorities places of work throughout Haryana, and a suspension order is normally his opening transfer when he finds something amiss.

The enduring Ambala MLA

He gained the Ambala Cantonment seat for the seventh consecutive time in 2024, by 7,248 votes. He first grew to become an MLA in 1990, after Sushma Swaraj vacated the seat for the Rajya Sabha. He has been out and in of the cupboard, fought two elections as an impartial, and located his method again to the BJP.

(Edited by Viny Mishra)

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