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Constituency
  
WAV

Role
  
Legislator

Name
  
Shankar Chaudhary


Religion
  
Hindu

Nationality
  
Indian


Profiles


Political party
  
Bharatiya Janata Party

Saathi hamara kaun banega rajasthani shyam bhajan by jai shankar chaudhary


Shankar Chaudhary (born 3 December 1970) is an Indian politician from Gujarat state. He is a Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Environment (All Independent charges) and Urban Development, Government of Gujarat.

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He was elected unopposed as the chairman of Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur (Banas Dairy). He also announced Rs 40/kg cut in Ghee prices on the first day of his office at Banas Dairy.

As Chaudhary was elected as the chairperson of Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation at Palanpur, the 24-year reign of Parthi Bhatol at the top of Asia’s largest dairy cooperative came to an end.

Karz tera kaise chuke rajasthani shyam bhajan by jai shankar chaudhary


Early life

He was born on 3 December 1970 in Vadnagar, Gujarat in a farmer family of Lagdhirbhai Chaudhary and Ratanben Chaudhary.

He completed his primary education at his native place and pursued secondary and higher secondary education at Radhanpur. He then went on to study cooperative management at the National Institute of Management.

Political career

He contested his first ever election of the Legislative Assembly at the age of just 27 years against the then Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela in 1997 from Radhanpur. However, in the subsequent election held in 1998, he was elected the Member of the Legislative Assembly from Radhanpur Constituency.

He was sworn in as the Minister of State in 2014 and at present holds the charge of the Health and Family welfare, Road and Transport and Urban Housing Departments.

At present, he is also active as the Chairman of the Banaskantha District Central Co-operative Bank and Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur (Banas Dairy), Vice-Chairman of The Gujarat State Co-operative Bank and General Secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Bharatiya Janta Party.

Awards

He was felicitated by the prestigious UN’s International Social Harmony Award at the hands of the present Governor of Gujarat for his outstanding conduction of educational activities in the least educated areas of his Constituency.

References

Shankar Chaudhary Wikipedia


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