Ashok Choudhary is an Indian politician from Barbigha Sheikhpura in Bihar, India. He has been a Member of the Bihar Legislative Council since 2014. Since June 2019, he is the Cabinet Minister for the Building Construction Department in the government led by Nitish Kumar. He previously was also Cabinet Minister for the Department of Education. He was appointed to the position of Working President of

Janta Dal United Janata Dal (United) ("People’s Party (United)”) abbreviated as JD(U) is an Indian political party with political presence mainly in eastern and north-eastern India. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar , Arunachal Pra ...

, Bihar.

Political career

In 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, he won from

Barbigha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) 170 Barbigha Assembly constituency is one of 243 legislative assembly constituencies of legislative assembly of Bihar. It is part of Nawada Nawada is a city and a municipality in Bihar, India. It is also the headquarters of the Nawada di ...

as an Indian National Congress candidate. Later in 2013, he was appointed Chief of

Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee The Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (BPCC) is the political unit of the Indian National Congress for the state of Bihar. Its head office is situated in Patna at the Sadaqat Ashram. The current working presidents are Shyam Sunder Singh Dhee ...

. In 2014, he was elected as Member of Bihar Legislative Council. He held the position as Minister of Department of Education and Department of Information Technology in Government of Bihar from 2015 to 2017 and 2020 to present. In 2018, he left Indian National Congress and joined

. He was appointed Minister of Building Construction Department, Government of Bihar on 2 June 2019.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Choudhary, Ashok Janata Dal (United) politicians Members of the Bihar Legislative Council Bihar MLAs 2000–2005 Living people Indian National Congress politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Bihar MLAs 2020–2025 State cabinet ministers of Bihar