Shruti Choudhry

Shruti Choudhry (born 3 October 1975) is an Indian politician from Haryana state. She is a member of Bharatiya Janata Party since June, 2024.[4] Previously, she was a member of the Indian National Congress since 2005 and represented Bhiwani constituency in the Indian Parliament from 2009 till 2014.[5]

Shruti Choudhry
Member of Parliament
In office
2009 – 2014
Preceded byKuldeep Bishnoi[1]
Succeeded byDharambir
ConstituencyBhiwani-Mahendragarh
Personal details
Born (1975-10-03) 3 October 1975 (age 48)
New Delhi, India
Political partyBharatiya Janata Party (June 2024 - present) [2]
SpouseArunabh Choudhry
ResidenceBhiwani[3]
As of 2 June, 2009

Early life

Shruti Choudry was born in New Delhi on 3 October 1975.[3] Her parents were Surender Singh and Kiran Choudhry, both of whom had served as ministers in the government of Haryana. Her paternal grandfather was the former Chief minister of Haryana, Bansi Lal and her family is among the major Political families of Haryana.[3][5]

Choudhry's early education was at the Convent of Jesus & Mary school and Delhi Public School, R K Puram, after which she studied in Oxford, England. She earned a B.A. from the University of Delhi and then a LL.B. from B. R. Ambedkar University in Agra. On 7 March 2003, she married with Arunabh Choudhry, a lawyer.[3][5]

Political Career

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 2009 Indian general election in the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency of the Lok Sabha. Mainly as a consequence of the goodwill that existed for her family in the area,[5] she defeated her nearest rival, Ajay Singh Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal, by a margin of 55,097 votes. Her grandfather had previously won the same seat three times, and her father had done so twice.[1]

During her tenure as a member of Parliament (2009-2014), Choudhry served on the Lok Sabha committees for agriculture and empowerment of women from 2009.[3]. She did not win re-election to the Lok Sabha seat in 2014.[1]

In June 2024, she and her mother, Kiran Choudhry, quit the Congress party due to differences with the party leader and ex-Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.[2] Subsequently, both of them joined the BJP on June 19, 2024, in the presence of several state BJP leaders including Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini and former CM Manohar Lal Khattar.[4]

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