Shruti Choudhry (born 3 October 1975) is an

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from

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Early life

Shruti Choudry was born in

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on 3 October 1975. Her parents were

Surender Singh Chaudhary Surender Singh (15 November 1946 - 31 March 2005) was an Indian politician from the Haryana Vikas Party and twice (1996, 1998) represented Bhiwani constituency in the Lok Sabha, was a Rajya Sabha member 1986–1992, and twice represente ...

and

Kiran Choudhry Kiran Choudhary (born 5 June 1955) is an Indian National Congress politician. As the concerned minister she is involved in the Haryana Forestry scam case which is a multi-crore fake plantation scam. She is a MLA from Tosham Vidhan Sabha consti ...

, both of whom had served as ministers in the

government of Haryana The Government of Haryana, also known as the State Government of Haryana, or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana and its 22 districts. It consists of an executive, ceremonially le ...

. Her paternal grandfather was the former Chief minister of

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Bansi Lal Bansi Lal Legha (26 August 1927 – 28 March 2006) was an Indian independence activist, senior Congress leader, former Chief Minister of Haryana, former Defence Minister of India, and the architect of modern Haryana. Bansi Lal was part of the ...

and her family is among the major

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. Choudhry's early education was at the Convent of Jesus & Mary school and

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, after which she studied in

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. She earned a B.A. from the

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and then a

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from B. R. Ambedkar University in

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. On 7 March 2003, she married with Arunabh Choudhry, a lawyer.

Politics

At first practising as a lawyer, Choudhry turned to politics following the death of her father in 2005. Choudhry was chosen by the Indian National Congress party to contest the

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in the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency of the

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. Mainly as a consequence of the goodwill that existed for her family in the area, she defeated her nearest rival,

Ajay Singh Chautala Ajay Singh Chautala (born 13 March 1961) is a former Indian MP and sports administrator. He is elder son of former Chief Minister of Haryana Om Prakash Chautala and father of current Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala. Biogra ...

of the

Indian National Lok Dal Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) is a political party in India, in the state of Haryana. INLD was founded in October 1996 as Haryana Lok Dal (Rashtriya) by Choudhary Devi Lal, who served as Deputy Prime Minister of India in the V.P. Singh's Cabin ...

, by a margin of 55,097 votes. Her grandfather had previously won the same seat three times, and her father had done so twice. Choudhry served as a member of the Lok Sabha committees for agriculture and empowerment of women from 2009. Choudhry did not win re-election in 2014.

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Lok Sabha biographical data
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Early life

Politics

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