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

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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 was 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

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from Vav against

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candidate Geniben Thakor. He was elected from Tharad constituency in

2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Elections in Gujarat, Gujarat from 2022 elections in India, 1 to 5 December 2022 in two phases, to elect List of constituencies of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, 182 members of 15th Gujarat Assembl ...

. 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 Speakers of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly