Dharamlal Kaushik (born 1 February 1958) is an Indian politician from the

Bharatiya Janta 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. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's Bharatiya Jana Sangh. Since 2014, ...

and the 3rd speaker of

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from 2009 to 2014.Profile on the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha website
/ref> On 4 January 2019, he was elected as the leader of opposition in

after the BJP lost the legislative assembly election to the INC held in

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. He also served as the state president of BJP's Chhattisgarh unit from 2014 till March 2019.

Political career

Kaushik was first elected to

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in 1998 from Bilha (Vidhan Sabha). After creation of

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (; ) is a landlocked States and union territories of India, state in Central India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the List ...

from

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state, Kaushik contested

2003 Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Chhattisgarh in December 2003, electing the 90 members of the first Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly. 2003 elections were the first election in Chhattisgarh after its formation from Madhya Pradesh. The ...

but lost to Siyaram Kaushik of

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. He was elected to

in 2008 by defeating

candidate Siyaram Kaushik by a margin of 6,070 votes. Again, he lost

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to his Congress rival Siyaram Kaushik. On 11 December 2018, he again won the election from same constituency and became Leader of the Opposition of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaushik, Dharamlal Speakers of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly Leaders of the opposition in Chhattisgarh 1958 births Living people People from Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh MLAs 2008–2013 Chhattisgarh MLAs 2000–2003 Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh MLAs 2018–2023 Madhya Pradesh MLAs 1998–2003 Chhattisgarh MLAs 2023–2028 Deputy speakers of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly