Chaudhary Babulal (born 2 July 1948) is an Indian politician from the state of

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. He served as a

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(MP) for the

Fatehpur Sikri Fatehpur Sikri () is a town in the Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India. Situated 35.7 kilometres from the district headquarters of Agra, Fatehpur Sikri itself was founded as the capital of Mughal Empire in 1571 by Emperor Akbar, serving th ...

(

) constituency of the

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. As a member of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), he has been one of the most prominent

Jat The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and su ...

leaders of western Uttar Pradesh for more than three decades.

Personal life

Chaudhary was born on 2 July 1948 in the village of Panwari, near the city of

Agra Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...

, in a farming family of Raghunath Singh and Kiran Devi. He was educated at Raja Balwant Singh College,

to the Intermediate level. Chaudhary married Mahaviri Devi and they have five sons and one daughter. Their eldest, Rameshwar Chaudhary, has unsuccessfully contested twice in the

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s; for Agra in 1998 and then Mathura in 1999. He placed second in both elections with 190,000 and 200,000 votes respectively. He now runs a chain of degree colleges.

Political career

Since childhood, he was influenced by

Choudhary Charan Singh Chaudhary Charan Singh (23 December 1902 – 29 May 1987) served as the 5th Prime Minister of India between 28 July 1979 to 14 January 1980. Historians and people alike frequently refer to him as the 'champion of India's peasants.' Charan S ...

, the 5th

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and famous Jat leader from western Uttar Pradesh. Despite his young age, he successfully contested the elections of Block Pramukh and Zila Panchayat Sadasya under the umbrella of the Panchayat General Election of the Uttar Pradesh Government. He was elected twice to the

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(13th Legislative Assembly, 1996–2002 and then 14th Legislative Assembly, 2002–2007) as a

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for the

constituency. He has served as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Kumari

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(2002–03) and then in the Government of

Mulayam Singh Yadav Mulayam Singh Yadav (22 November 1939 – 10 October 2022) was an Indian politician, a socialist figure and the founder of the Samajwadi Party. In the course of his political career spanning more than six decades, he served for three terms as ...

(2003–2007). He has been the Minister for various government departments including the Ministry of Food Processing, Pension, Rashtriya Bhasha and Maddah Nishedh. He is currently a member of the Committee on Defence and the Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution.

References

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