Varun Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a member of 14th

Haryana Legislative Assembly The Haryana Legislative Assembly or the Haryana Vidhan Sabha is the unicameral state legislature of Haryana state in India. The seat of the Vidhan Sabha is at Chandigarh, the capital of the state. The Vidhan Sabha comprises 90 Members of L ...

representing Mulana. He is a member of the

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Personal life

Chaudhary was born to former Indian National Congress chief

Phool Chand Mullana Phool Chand Mullana (born 6 April 1941) is an Indian lawyer and politician. He is a B.A., LL.B. by education. He was elected four times as MLA (in 1972, 1982, 1991 and 2005) from Ambala District to Mullana Assembly constituency. He was a cabin ...

and hails from

Ambala Ambala () is a city and a municipal corporation in Ambala district in the state of Haryana, India, located on the border with the Indian state of Punjab and in proximity to both states capital Chandigarh. Politically, Ambala has two sub-area ...

city of

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...

. He completed

Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

from Campus Law Center

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

in 2006. Singh is a lawyer by profession.

Political career

In the

2019 Haryana Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly election was held in Haryana on 21 October 2019 to elect 90 members of the Haryana Legislative Assembly. The final voter turnout was recorded at 68.20%. The results were announced on 24 October 2019. The Bharatiya Janata ...

, Chaudhary represented

as a candidate from Mulana and went on to defeat

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...

's Rajbir Singh by a margin of 1,688 votes, succeeding Santosh Chauhan Sarwan in the process. In March 2021, Chaudhary was awarded the 'Best Legislator Award' for his contributions to the state's assembly.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaudhary, Varun Indian National Congress politicians from Haryana Living people Haryana MLAs 2019–2024 People from Ambala Year of birth missing (living people)