Bhudeo Choudhary

Bhudeo Choudhary (alternatively Bhudev Choudhary;[1] born 1 February 1960[2]) is an Indian politician and former member of parliament. He has been the state president of the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party in Bihar till September 2020.[3] Prior to the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020, he joined Rashtriya Janata Dal.[4] He has also been the representative of the Dhauraiya constituency in the Bihar Legislative Assembly from 2000 to 2009. Choudhary was elected to the Indian parliament in 2009 for one term as the representative of the Jamui constituency. He is a former member of the Janata Dal (United).

Bhudeo Choudhary
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha
In office
2009–2014
Succeeded byChirag Paswan
ConstituencyJamui
Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly
In office
2000–2009
Preceded byNaresh Das
Succeeded byManish Kumar
ConstituencyDhoraiya
Personal details
Born (1960-02-01) 1 February 1960
Political partyRashtriya Janata Dal (2020 -Present)
Other political
affiliations
Spouse(s)Indrani Choudhary (m. 1997)

Political career

Bhudeo Choudhary had contested the Dhauraiya constituency of the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1990 as an independent candidate and in 1995 as the candidate of the Samta Party.[1][5] Choudhary was elected as a representative in the legislative assembly for the first time in 2000. He was then a member of the Samta Party and became the representative of the Dhauraiya constituency.[6] After the merger of the Samta Party into the Janata Dal (United),[7] he was re-elected to the seat in the February and October elections of 2005 as the candidate of the Janata Dal (United).[8]

Choudhary was elected to the Indian parliament from the Jamui constituency in the 2009 Indian general election as a member of the Janata Dal (United) and a nominee of the National Democratic Alliance.[9][10] Following his election, he resigned from his seat in the Bihar Legislative Assembly.[11] He is noted to have criticised the 2011 Union Budget of India with a rhyme stating "If you drive a car, I will tax the street. If you try to sit, I will tax the seat. If you get too cold, I will tax the heat. If you take a walk, I will tax your feet."[12] Choudhary remained as a sitting member of parliament of the Janata Dal (United) till 2014,[13] but the party denied him candidacy to stand for re-election in the 2014 Indian general election.[14][15]

He contested the Dhauraiya constituency for the sixth time as a candidate Rashtriya Lok Samata Party in the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election but failed to secure the seat.[16] In 2016, he was nominated as the state president of the Bihar unit of the Rashtriya Lok Samata Party's by the party's national president, Upendra Kushwaha.[17] The nomination was met with dissent in the party from the rebelling faction of Arun Kumar.[18] Choudhary contested the Jamui constituency seat in the 2019 Indian general election but was defeated by Chirag Paswan.[19]

Controversy

Land grabbing case

Bhudeo Choudhary has been involved in a land grabbing case in Kazichak, Banka district. A first information report (FIR) had been lodged against Choudhary which stated that he had forced the claimant of a property to vacate the premises by threatening him with an unlicensed revolver in the presence of a mob which included police personnel and administrative officers and then demolished the property after attaining possession. The report alleged that documents for the sale of the property was forged with the help of undue influence in favor of his wife, Indrani Choudhary when he was the Member of the Legislative Assembly from the constituency. The report also claimed that a death certificate of the wife of the original owner had been forged to deny her rights to the property after her husband had died. The FIR had named Bhudeo Choudhary, his wife, a deputy collector and over 50 other people, some of whom were unidentified.[20]

References
  1. "Bihar 1990". Election Commission of India.
  2. "Profile of Members". Government of India. Archived from the original on 1 January 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
  3. "रालोसपा की प्रदेश कमेटी की घोषणा, भूदेव चौधरी फिर बने प्रदेश अध्यक्ष". Live Hindustan (in Hindi). 29 October 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  4. "Bihar RLSP president Bhudeo Chaudhary joins RJD". ind.news. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  5. "Bihar 1995". Election Commission of India.
  6. "Bihar 2000". Election Commission of India.
  7. Menon, Paravathi (23 April 2004). "Janata Parivar's home base". Frontline Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 January 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  8. "Bihar 2005". Election Commission of India.
  9. "Jamui Election Results 2019 Live Updates: Chirag Kumar Paswan of LJP Wins". News18. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  10. Singh, Abhay (1 April 2019). "Bihar: New rivals to make interesting contest in Jamui". The Times of India.
  11. Srivastava, Amitabh (2 July 2019). "Bihar set for a mini election". India Today. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  12. Vasudev, Shefalee (1 July 2016). "No country for humour". Livemint. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  13. "Bihar BJP resists Paswan's return to NDA fold". Business Line. 25 February 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  14. "General Election 2014". Election Commission of India.
  15. Jha, Giridhar (22 March 2014). "Political turncoats take over Bihar". India Today. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  16. "Bihar 2015". Election Commission of India.
  17. "Kushwaha names Bhudeo Choudhary as RLSP Bihar president". Business Standard. 18 September 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  18. Mishra, Anand (26 September 2016). "Upendra Kushwaha re-elected RLSP chief". The Indian Express. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  19. Jha, Sujeet (20 May 2019). "Party to decide if Chirag Paswan should be given ministerial post in Modi's cabinet: Ram Vilas Paswan". India Today. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  20. "सांसद भूदेव पर प्राथमिकी का आदेश". Prabhat Khabar (in Hindi). 11 January 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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