Shankar Chaudhary (born 3 December 1970) is an Indian politician from

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state. He is the Speaker of

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since December 2022. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2017 and again since 2022.

Political career

He contested his first ever election of the Legislative Assembly at the age of just 27 years against the then Chief Minister

Shankarsinh Vaghela Shankersinh Laxmansinhji Vaghela (born 21 July 1940) is an Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Gujarat. He was the Leader of Opposition in 13th Gujarat Legislative Assembly. Vagela started his political career with the Jana Sangh, w ...

in 1997 from Radhanpur. However, in the subsequent election held in 1998, he was elected the Member of the Legislative Assembly from Radhanpur constituency. He was the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Environment (All Independent charges) and Urban Development,

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under Anandiben Patel ministry. In 2015, he was elected unopposed as the chairman of Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur (

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) ending 24-year reign of Parthi Bhatol. He is also as the Chairman of the Banaskantha District Central Co-operative Bank and Vice-Chairman of The Gujarat State Co-operative Bank and General Secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Bharatiya Janta Party. He lost in 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election from Vav against

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candidate Geniben Thakor. He was elected from Tharad constituency in

2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly election was held in Gujarat from 1 to 5 December 2022 in two phases, to elect 182 members of 15th Gujarat Legislative Assembly. The votes were counted and the results were declared on 8 December 2022. The Bharatiya Jana ...

. He was elected as the Speaker of

on 20 December 2022.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaudhary, Shankar Living people Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Gujarat Gujarat MLAs 1998–2002 Gujarat MLAs 2002–2007 Gujarat MLAs 2007–2012 Gujarat MLAs 2012–2017 1970 births People from Banaskantha district Gujarat MLAs 2022–2027