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Samrat Chaudhary is an Indian politician. In January 2024, he took charge as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar under the Nitish Kumar government along with Vijay Kumar Sinha. He is the President of Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar.
Wiki/Biography
Samrat Chaudhary was born on Saturday, 16 November 1968 (age 55 years; as in 2023) in Lakhanpur, Bihar. Their zodiac sign is Scorpio. He is also known as Rakesh Kumar. He has completed Doctor of LITT degree from California Public University, USA. He then completed the PFC course at Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu.
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 11″
Weight (Approx): 80 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye colour: black
Family
parents and siblings
Samrat Chaudhary’s father, Shakuni Chaudhary, is an army personnel turned politician who has served as an MP and MLA and is also a founding member of the Samata Party.
Shakuni Chaudhary
His mother, Parvati Devi, is an Indian politician who served as an MLA from the Tarapur constituency in Bihar. He died in September 2022 after suffering from an illness for a long time.
Parvati Devi
He has 4 brothers and sisters. His brother Rohit Chaudhary is a member of JDU party.
Rohit Chaudhary
wife and children
Samrat Chaudhary is married to Mamta Kumari, who is a lawyer. The couple is blessed with two children, a son and a daughter.
Samrat Chaudhary with his wife and children
Religion
Samrat Chaudhary follows Hindu religion.
Caste
Samrat Chaudhary is an OBC representative of the BJP and a member of the Koeri caste. In Bihar, the Kushwaha caste is the second largest OBC group after the Yadavs.
Address
43, Harding Road, Patna, Bihar
Signature
livelihood
Ministries organized
Samrat Chaudhary entered active politics in 1990 and was sworn in as Agriculture Minister in the Government of Bihar under the Rabri Devi government on 19 May 1999. As agriculture minister, he looked after the measurements and horticulture portfolio, but was soon removed from the ministry after the opposition claimed he was underage. On 2 June 2014, he was appointed Minister of Urban Development and Housing Department in the Jitan Ram Manjhi government. In 2021, Samrat was appointed Panchayati Raj Minister from BJP quota in the expanded cabinet of Nitish Kumar.
Samrat Chaudhary (far right) performing his duties as Panchayati Raj Minister
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
In 2000, he was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Parbatta constituency on a Rashtriya Janata Dal party ticket. In 2010, he contested the Bihar Legislative Assembly election from Parbatta constituency on Rashtriya Janata Dal Party ticket and defeated his nearest rival Ramanand Prasad Singh by 808 votes.
held party positions
In 2010, he was appointed as the Chief Whip of the opposition party in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. In 2018, he was appointed as the vice president of the Bihar unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In 2020, he was one of the key campaigners for the National Democratic Alliance during the Bihar Assembly elections. On 24 August 2022, he took charge as the Leader of Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Council, succeeding Rabri Devi. In March 2023, Chaudhary replaced Sanjay Jaiswal as the president of the Bihar unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party. According to political analysts, the party leadership has taken this action to create a strong base among Kushwaha voters.
Member of Bihar Legislative Council
In May 2014, he was appointed as a member of the Bihar Legislative Council by DY Patil, the then Governor of Bihar. On 29 June 2020, he was re-elected as a member of the Bihar Legislative Council.
Deputy Chief Minister
On 28 January 2024, Samrat Chaudhary took over as the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar along with Vijay Kumar Sinha. On the same day, he was also elected leader of the BJP legislative party. In an interview, while thanking BJP and expressing his gratitude towards the party, he said,
BJP did historic work for my life. Being chosen as the leader of the legislature party to join the government is an emotional moment for me. The mandate we got in 2020 was for the development of Bihar and to end the terror of Lalu Yadav – when BJP got a proposal from Nitish Kumar to ensure that there is no ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bihar and Sanjay Jha Came here as their messenger. , we decided to support it.
Samrat Chaudhary with Vijay Kumar Sinha
controversies
Allegation of age fraud
In November 1999, Samrat Chaudhary was dismissed from the Rabri Devi Cabinet by Governor Suraj Bhan on the grounds that he was under age; He cited Article 164 of the Constitution which implies that to become a minister, a person must have attained the age eligible to be a member of the State Legislative Assembly (25) or Legislative Council (30). Furthermore, Governor Suraj Bhan directed the state government to register a case of fraud, forgery and misrepresentation against Chaudhary and initiate repayment of all salaries and benefits given to him since his appointment as minister. The controversy initially arose from a petition filed by Samata Party leaders Raghunath Jha and PK Sinha before state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) AK Basu and then Governor Justice BM Lal, claiming that Chaudhary was not old enough to become a minister as he had not yet turned 25. Lal had directed Basu to look into the situation and provide a report within a period of 25 days. Lal later retired, but the matter resurfaced when Suraj Bhan directed the CEO to submit a full report by 5 November 1999. Basu noted in his report to the Governor that Chaudhary had not cooperated with investigators and said,
The minister failed to prove that he had attained the age to become a qualified minister.
charges under IPC
Samrat has been charged under two sections of the IPC, IPC Section 171F, which deals with undue influence or impersonation at an election, and IPC Section 188, which deals with disobedience to an order promulgated by a public servant. There is an allegation. ,
controversial statement
In August 2023, Samrat Chaudhary came into limelight when he gave a controversial statement in Tulsi’s Ram program. He said that he was not going to accept the year 1947 as the year of India’s independence and argued that India got true independence only after the Sampoorna Kranti (Total Revolution Movement) in 1977, which was led by Jayaprakash Narayan. . It was a political movement started by students against the misgovernance and corruption of the state government in Bihar, which was later turned against Indira Gandhi’s government at the central level. After this many ministers questioned the wisdom of Samrat Chaudhary.
property/property
movable property
Cash: Rs. 1,50,000
Deposits in banks, financial institutions and non-banking financial companies: Rs. 7,74,606
Bonds, debentures and shares in companies: Rs. 10,40,000
Jewellery: Rs. 6,00,000
Immovable property
Agricultural Land: Rs. 86,11,408
Non-agricultural land: Rs. 4,87,44,744
Commercial Building: Rs. 85,00,000
Note: The estimates given are as of the year 2019. It does not include property owned by his wife and dependents (minors).
net worth
Samrat Chaudhary’s net worth (as of 2019) is around Rs. 8 crores.
Facts/General Knowledge
- Samrat Chaudhary remained associated with the Rashtriya Janata Dal party till 2014 and later became part of a rebel faction.
- In February 2014, Samrat Chaudhary led the defection of 13 RJD MLAs to seek recognition as a separate group.
- He filed a PIL in the Patna High Court, where he challenged the legality of RJD President Lalu Prasad distributing party symbols to the candidates and claimed that Lalu Prasad was ineligible to hold the post after being convicted in a corruption case. .
- Later, in 2014 he joined JD(U), whose president at that time was Jitan Ram Manjhi. Three years later, i.e. in 2017, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Samrat Chaudhary (centre) after joining BJP.
- Samrat Chaudhary has been seen wearing a saffron turban since September 2022. Initially, he started wearing the turban as a form of mourning after his mother Parvati Devi died due to illness, but after some time it took a political turn.
- In 2023, when Nitish Kumar broke away from the BJP and formed a new government with the support of the Grand Alliance, Chaudhary vowed to wear the turban until Nitish was removed from the post of chief minister.
- In an interview, Samrat talked about the conversation he had with Nitish and told what he had said to Nitish when he was asked why he wears a turban regularly.
I told him (CM) that I have sworn to remove him from the throne and the day you step down from the throne, the same day the turban (turban) will be removed. I said that I also want your blessings to fulfill my wish.
Samrat Chaudhary wearing saffron turban
- In his spare time he likes to play cricket. He has also supported and promoted many state-wide athletic and cultural events.
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