a.Om Prakash Chautala was the first person in the family ofDevi Lal who started usingChautala in his name, which is hisnative village name although his family clan belongs toSihag Jats.[3]
^Manav, Sushil (20 December 2024)."OP Chautala: Jat mass leader with rural connect, last of Haryana's veterans, five-time CM & more".ThePrint. Retrieved11 February 2025. “Chautala was the eldest of the four sons of Chaudhary Devi Lal, the legendary Jat leader who twice became the deputy prime minister of India. He was the first to have started writing his village Chautala’s name as his second name, though the family’s ‘gotra’ (clan) is Sihag.”