Ashok Choudhary is an Indian politician from Barbigha Sheikhpura in

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West ...

, India. He has been a Member of the

Bihar Legislative Council Bihar Vidhan Parishad, also known as Bihar Legislative Council, is the upper house of the bicameral Bihar Legislature of the state of Bihar in India. History A new Province of Bihar and Odisha was created by the Government of India on 12 Dec ...

since 2014. Since June 2019, he is the Cabinet Minister for the Building Construction Department in the government led by

Nitish Kumar Nitish Kumar (born 1 March 1951) is an Indian politician, who is serving as Chief Minister of Bihar since 22 February 2015, having previous held the office from 2005 to 2014 and for a short period in 2000. The leader of the Janata Dal (Unit ...

. He previously was also Cabinet Minister for the Department of Education. He was appointed to the position of Working President of Janta Dal United, Bihar.

Political career

In 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, he won from Barbigha (Vidhan Sabha constituency) as an

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

candidate. Later in 2013, he was appointed Chief of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee. In 2014, he was elected as Member of

. He held the position as Minister of Department of Education and Department of Information Technology in

Government of Bihar The Government of Bihar, known locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Bihar and its 9 divisions which consist of 38 districts . It consists of an executive, led by the Governor of Bihar, a ju ...

from 2015 to 2017 and 2020 to present. In 2018, he left

and joined Janta Dal United. He was appointed Minister of Building Construction Department,

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