Sham Lal Choudhary

Sham Lal Choudhary is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Choudhary is currently a cabinet minister in the BJP-PDP Coalition Government in the state of Jammu and Kashmir .[1][2][3][4]

Two times MLA-Sham Choudhary is among very few names in the state, who had touched the success in politics in such a short period. Hailing from Dev Batala village of Bhimber tehsil in what is now the Pakistani administered territory of Azad Kashmir, Sham Choudhary migrated to border village of Chakroi in Ranbir Singh Pura. At present, he represents in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly the border constituency of Suchetgarh in Jammu district.

Education

Choudhary started his Primary education in the Government school Chakroi and matriculated in 1977 before joining Government Higher Secondary School, R S Pura to complete his 10+2. Being an outstanding student Sham Choudhary entered SPMR College of Commerce in 1981 despite facing hardships.

Social Life

Instead of living miserable life, Choudhary dedicatedly put his efforts in the service of poor and downtrodden people, which eventually made him popular among the masses. His several innovative and out of the box ideas, like constituting development committee proved constructive one and was highly admired by the people. Continuing his efforts for the betterment of the native people, he converted "Chakroi Development Committee" into "Border Development Committee".

Political career

In 1996, Choudhary joined the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) to strengthen the border population. In 2000, he won his debut Panchayat elections unopposed, which made it evident that how popular leader he was.

Keeping in view his rising popularity among people, BJP decided to choose him as party candidate from Suchetgarh for 2008 assembly elections, wherein he won with huge margin.

In his first tenure as MLA, the border district witnessed golden era with all round development recorded. Again in 2014, he was re-elected and after years of service he is inducted into cabinet.[5]

Presently, Choudhary is serving as the Minister for Public Health Engineering, Irrigation and Flood Control Department in the State

References
  1. Present Council of Minister
  2. My Neta
  3. BJP Minister of State a murder accused
  4. Sitting and previous MLAs from Suchetgarh Assembly Constituency
  5. "General Administration Department, Government of Jammu & Kashmir". jkgad.nic.in. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
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