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* Ashwini Kumar Choubey (born 2 January 1953) is an Indian politician belonging to the
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who is currently serving Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Environment, Forest and Climate Change and a member of the 17th Lok Sabha. He is a member of the
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representing Buxar (Lok Sabha constituency) and a former health minister of
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. He had represented the Bihar legislative assembly from Bhagalpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) before contesting the 16th Lok Sabha election. On 3 September 2017, he became in charge of office as Minister of State for Health in Narendra Modi's Government. He resigned in July 2021.


Political career

Choubey is a veteran politician from state of
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and elected to the
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for five consecutive terms. He was accredited to have built 11,000 toilets for minority and
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families under
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. A slogan "Ghar-ghar Me ho Shouchalaya ka Nirman, Tabhi hoga Ladli Bitiya ka kanyadaan" given by him was a hit in Bihar and people from all castes and religions availed government provided subsidy to build toilets in their respective homes.


Early career

Chaubey has been associated with
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for almost five decades and was earlier associated with
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. In his earlier stint, he was the health minister in the
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 (Unite ...
cabinet in 2012. He authored a book "Kedarnath Trasadi" based on the 2013 deluge in Uttarakhand where he got stranded with his family. He and his family managed to take shelter in the Kedarnath temple and were airlifted by a state government helicopter.


Life

In May 2019, Choubey became the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. Portfolio Held - NDA I (2005-2010) and NDA II (2010-2013) are
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, PHED and
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. Member of Parliamentary Committee on Estimates,
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, Consultative Committee on Health and Family Welfare and Central Silk Board.


Professional work

He was instrumental on digitisation of health services in the time of pandemic and had launched Digitised platform of Flagship Health Schemes on (NHA)’s IT platform. The whole process of delivery of healthcare services to eligible beneficiaries under national health scheme is made paper less. Choubey had piloted medical mobile unit project under his constituency Buxar where the facility of tele-medicine , pathological tests and online medical consultation was facilitated. The mobile unit is named ' Aarogya wahan' and it is piloted in all constituencies in Buxar. Choubey ministry has provisioned and had exceeded the quota of
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injection to 2 Lakhs in the state of Bihar in May 2021. In June 2019, Children in Bihar's Muzaffarpur and adjoining districts have been plagued with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) which has resulted in loss of lives. In order to address the growing concern, Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called for a media briefing. There were reports that MoS Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey was sleeping during the same and later clarified that he was in deep thoughts during the crisis call. On being questioned by the media, he said 'Main manan chintan bhi karta hoon na, main so nahi raha tha' (I contemplate also. I was not sleeping). In September 2019, Ashwini Choubey said that
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should be used in medicines and treatment of cancer, for which he was severely criticised for lack of scientific temper. He also pointed out that the former prime minister
Morarji Desai Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 to 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his ...
used to consume cow urine as it cures various diseases.


References

I {{DEFAULTSORT:Choubey, Ashwini Kumar Living people Bihar MLAs 2010–2015 People from Bhagalpur India MPs 2014–2019 Lok Sabha members from Bihar People from Buxar district State cabinet ministers of Bihar 1953 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Bihar Narendra Modi ministry India MPs 2019–present