Col. Sonaram Choudhary (born 1940/41) (''Hindi''- कर्नल सोनाराम चौधरी) is an Indian politician, and a member of the

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since 2014. He represented Barmer constituency in

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

, India, in Lok Sabha for

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, winning elections in 1996, 1998, 1999. He lost 2004 Lok Sabha elections to BJP's Manavendra Singh. Later, he left Congress and joined Bhartiya Janta Party before

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. He was declared candidate of BJP from Barmer instead of veteran BJP leader Jaswant Singh, and won 2014 elections.Election Results: Jaswant goes down fighting in Barmer
/ref> Col. Sonaram Chaudhary is considered a strong

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 subse ...

leader of entire

including

Marwar Marwar (also called Jodhpur region) is a region of western Rajasthan state in North Western India. It lies partly in the Thar Desert. The word 'maru' is Sanskrit for desert. In Rajasthani languages, "wad" means a particular area. English tran ...

. Col, who was a four-time MP from Barmer Jaisalmer and one-time MLA from Baitu assembly constituency, always has an active role in the Jat politics of Rajasthan.

Education and career

He obtained a

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degree from M.B.M. Engineering College,

Jodhpur Jodhpur (; ) is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state. It was formerly the seat of the princely state of Jodhpur State. Jodhpur was historically the capital of the Ki ...

(

) and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (F.I.E.). He passed out of the Indian Military Academy in 1966 and was commissioned as

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in the Indian Army Corps of Engineers into, 55th Engineers Regiment of Bengal Sappers of the

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. He served in the

1971 war The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a military confrontation between India and Pakistan that occurred during the Bangladesh Liberation War in East Pakistan from 3 December 1971 until the Pakistani capitulation in Dhaka on 16 Decemb ...

on the Eastern Front. He retired from the Army as a full

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in 1987.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ram, Sona Rajasthani politicians Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Rajasthan Living people 1945 births India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 India MPs 2014–2019 People from Barmer district Lok Sabha members from Rajasthan Members of Parliament from Barmer Indian National Congress politicians Rajasthan MLAs 2008–2013