Sharad Kumar Chauhan, also known as Sharad Chauhan and Sharad Kumar, is an Indian politician, from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). He was a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi (MLA) from Nerela constituency also elected as Parliament Secretary of Revenue.

Personal life

Sharad Chauhan was born to Zile Singh (father) and Vidhya Devi on 29 June 1975 in

Narela Narela and sub-city is a tehsil, located in the North Delhi district of Delhi, and forms the border of Delhi with Haryana. Situated just off the Grand Trunk Road, its location made it an important market town for the surrounding areas, during t ...

(Nerela) area of

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders wi ...

. He has two elder brothers. His eldest brother, Akhil Chauhan, is an engineer and a District Manager in

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(TPDDL) in Rohini. His second brother, Vikas Chauhan is a doctor and owns a hospital in

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. He is married to Reeta Chauhan (Reeta) and has two sons Abhinav and Archit. Reeta is a councillor from

Municipal Corporation of Delhi Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is the municipal corporation that governs most of Delhi, India. The MCD is among the largest municipal bodies in the world providing civic services to an estimated population of more than 11 million citiz ...

(MCD) and a housewife. As per his affidavit for elections, his self-declared profession is farmer; the AAP party website describes him as a social worker. Chauhan is a matriculate (Xth standard) and passed from Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Bakhtawarpur in 1995. His wealth is ₹2.60 crore, as per his affidavit. He currently resides in Bakoli village in Delhi. In 2016 he was arrested with six others in the suicide case of a girl named Soni from Narela for which he was granted Bail too.

Political career

Earlier, Chauhan was with

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), a ...

(BSP). He was elected as a councillor from MCD, Ward 4, Bakhtawarpur in 2007 by 6,593 votes; his wife is the councillor who currently represents the ward. She won the seat in 2012 by 15,975 votes after it was reserved for women. He lost the

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s by a narrow margin of 800 votes on a BSP ticket against Jaswant Singh of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...

(INC) party. Chauhan switched to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from the BSP, just before the 2015 elections. Chauhan fought the elections from the Nerela constituency. He got 96,143 votes and defeated his nearest rival and sitting MLA

Neel Daman Khatri Neeldaman Khatri (born 2 May 1970) is an Indian Politician and a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected to Delhi Legislative Assembly The Delhi Legislative Assembly, also known as the Delhi Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral legislatur ...

of the

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(BJP) by a margin of 40,292 in the

2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election The Delhi Legislative Assembly election was held on 7 February 2015 to elect 70 members of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. The results were announced on 10 February 2015. The Aam Aadmi Party secured an absolute majority in the assembl ...

s.Assembly Elections 2015 Results, Election Commission of India
The AAP won 67 out of the total 70 seats in the elections.

Electoral performance

References

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AAP MLA Arrested for Suicide case of former party Volunteer
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Personal life

Political career

See also

Electoral performance

References