Shankar Chaudhary

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Shankar Chaudhary
Minister of State for Medical Education, Environment (All Independent charges) & Urban Development, Government of Gujarat
In office 7 August 2016 – 26 December 2017
Minister of State for Urban Housing (Independent Charge), Health, Family Welfare and Transport, Government of Gujarat
In office 22 May 2014 – 7 August 2016
Chairman, Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 December 2015
Preceded by	Parthi Bhatol
Member of Legislative Assembly for Radhanpur
In office 1997–2012
Member of Legislative Assembly for Vav
In office 2012–2017
Vice Chairman of Gujarat State Co-operative Bank
Personal details
Born	(1970-12-03) 3 December 1970 (age 51) , Gujarat
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Children	Neeti Chaudhary, Sindhu Chaudhary, Krishna Chaudhary, Ved Chaudhary
Parent(s)	Lagdhirbhai Chaudhary and Ratanben Chaudhary

Shankar Chaudhary (born 3 December 1970) is an Indian politician from Gujarat state. He was the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Environment (All Independent charges) and Urban Development, Government of Gujarat.

Early life[]

Chaudhary was born on 3 December 1970 in Vadnagar, Gujarat in a farmer family of Lagdhirbhai Chaudhary and Ratanben Chaudhary.

He completed his primary education at his native place and pursued secondary and higher secondary education at Radhanpur. He then went on to study cooperative management at the National Institute of Management.

Political career[]

He contested his first ever election of the Legislative Assembly at the age of just 27 years against the then Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela 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 sworn in as the Minister of State in 2014 and at present holds the charge of the Health and Family welfare, Road and Transport and Urban Housing Departments.

At present, he is also active as the Chairman of the Banaskantha District Central Co-operative Bank and Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur (Banas Dairy), Vice-Chairman of The Gujarat State Co-operative Bank and General Secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Bharatiya Janta Party.

He lost in 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election from Vav against Indian National Congress candidate .^[1]

He was elected unopposed as the chairman of Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur (Banas Dairy) ending 24-year reign of Parthi Bhatol.^[2]

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