Shruti Choudhry

Early life

Shruti Choudry was born in New Delhi on 3 October 1975. Her parents were Surender Singh and Kiran Choudhry, both of whom had served as ministers in the government of Haryana. One of her grandfathers was the former Haryana chief minister, Bansi Lal.

Choudhry's early education was at the Convent of Jesus & Mary school and Delhi Public School, R K Puram, after which she studied in Oxford, England. She earned a B.A. from the University of Delhi and then a LL.B. from B. R. Ambedkar University in Agra. On 7 March 2003, she married Arunabh Choudrhy, a lawyer.

Politics

At first practising as a lawyer, Choudhry turned to politics following the death of her father in 2005. Choudhry was chosen by the Indian National Congress party to contest the 2009 Indian general election in the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency of the Lok Sabha. Mainly as a consequence of the goodwill that existed for her family in the area, she defeated her nearest rival, Ajay Singh Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal, by a margin of 55,097 votes. Her grandfather had previously won the same seat three times, and her father had done so twice.

Choudhry served as a member of the Lok Sabha committees for agriculture and empowerment of women from 2009.

Choudhry is defending the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency in the 2014 Indian general election. Reportedly due to her poor leadership skills in addition to a lack of progress in her district, she got a thumping defeat in the 2014 general election.