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.
Sharad Chauhan | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office Feb 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Neeldaman Khatri |
| Constituency | Nerela |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Delhi, India |
| Political party | Aam Aadmi Party |
Personal life
editSharad Chauhan was born to Zile Singh (father) and Vidhya Devi on 29 June 1975 in Narela (Nerela) area of Delhi. He has two elder brothers. His eldest brother, Akhil Chauhan, is an engineer and a District Manager in Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) in Rohini. His second brother, Vikas Chauhan is a doctor and owns a hospital in Mumbai. He is married to Reeta Chauhan (Reeta) and has two sons Abhinav and Archit.[1][2] His wife is a councillor from Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and a housewife.[3]
As per his affidavit for elections, his self-declared profession is farmer;[4] the AAP party website describes him as a social worker.[2] Chauhan is a matriculate (Xth standard) and passed from Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Bakhtawarpur in 1995.[4][3] His wealth is ₹2.60 crore, as per his affidavit.[5] He currently resides in Bakoli village in Delhi.[3]
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.[6]
Political career
editEarlier, Chauhan was with Bahujan Samaj Party (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.[1][2] He lost the 2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections by a narrow margin of 800 votes on a BSP ticket against Jaswant Singh of the Indian National Congress (INC) party.[7]
Chauhan switched to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from the BSP, just before the 2015 elections.[8] Chauhan fought the elections from the Nerela constituency. He got 96,143 votes and defeated his nearest rival and sitting MLA Neel Daman Khatri of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 40,292 in the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections.[9][10] The AAP won 67 out of the total 70 seats in the elections.[9]
See also
edit
Electoral performance
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Jaswant Singh | 34,662 | 31.66 | ||
| BSP | Sharad Chauhan | 33,830 | 30.90 | ||
| BJP | Ajit Singh | 29,754 | 27.17 | ||
| Independent | Raj Singh Khatri | 5,041 | 4.60 | ||
| LJP | Amit Kumar | 1,704 | 1.56 | ||
| Majority | 832 | 0.76 | |||
| Turnout | 1,09,494 | 56.80 | |||
| INC win (new seat) | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAP | Sharad Chauhan | 96,143 | 59.97 | +43.26 | |
| BJP | Neel Daman Khatri | 55,851 | 34.84 | −3.11 | |
| INC | Praveen Kumar Bhugra | 4,643 | 2.90 | −15.38 | |
| BSP | Roopesh Bhardwaj | 1,662 | 1.04 | −20.55 | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 767 | 0.48 | −0.17 | |
| Majority | 40,292 | 25.13 | +8.77 | ||
| Turnout | 1,60,339 | 66.52 | −1.39 | ||
| AAP gain from BJP | Swing | +23.19 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAP | Sharad Chauhan | 86,262 | 52.06 | −7.91 | |
| BJP | Neel Daman Khatri | 68,833 | 41.54 | +6.70 | |
| INC | Siddharth Kundu | 6,270 | 3.78 | +0.88 | |
| BSP | Mahendar Choudhary | 821 | 0.50 | −0.54 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 753 | 0.45 | −0.03 | |
| Majority | 17,429 | 10.52 | −14.61 | ||
| Turnout | 1,65,963 | 65.34 | −1.17 | ||
| AAP hold | Swing | −7.91 | |||
References
edit- ^ a b "About Sharad Chauhan". Official website. Archived from the original on 19 July 2017. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ^ a b c "Sharad Chauhan". AAP official site. Archived from the original on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ^ a b c "Sharad Kumar Affdavit" (PDF). myneta.info/. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ a b "Delhi: Nerela Result". NDTV. Archived from the original on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ "Delhi Results". NDTV. Archived from the original on 14 February 2015. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
- ^ "AAP MLA Sharad Chauhan, 6 others arrested in suicide case of party worker Soni". 31 July 2016.
- ^ Darpan Singh (11 December 2014). "AAP chooses volunteers over veterans in third list". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 22 January 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ^ "Dharna politics is not in my DNA, says AAP MLA candidate from Narela". I am in DNA Of North West Delhi. Zee Network. 3 January 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b "Election Result". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
- ^ "Election Commission of India - Assembly Elections December 2013 Results". Archived from the original on 10 December 2013.
- ^ 2008 Election Commission of India
- ^ Assembly Elections December 2013 Results, Election Commission of India Archived 2015-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2020 to the Legislative Assembly of NCT of Delhi". eci.gov.in. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
10.AAP MLA Arrested for Suicide case of former party Volunteer