Aruna Chaudhary

Aruna Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a member of Indian National Congress. She is a minister in the current council of ministers.. She is member of 15th Punjab Legislative Assembly (MLA) and represents Dina Nagar constituency. She is daughter-in-law of Jai Muni Chaudhary, a four-time MLA.

Aruna Chaudhary
MLA, Punjab
In office
2002 - 2007
Preceded byRoop Rani
Succeeded bySita Ram Kashyap
ConstituencyDina Nagar
In office
2012 - 2017
Preceded bySita Ram Kashyap
Succeeded byAruna Chaudhary
ConstituencyDina Nagar
In office
2017 - Present
Preceded byAruna Chaudhary
ConstituencyDina Nagar
Personal details
Born (1957-04-16) 16 April 1957
Amritsar, Punjab
Political partyIndian National Congress
Spouse(s)Ashok Chaudhary
ResidenceAwakha, Gurdaspur, Punjab, India

Personal life

Aruna Chaudhary is married to Ashok Chaudhary who has retired as Additional Director Local Bodies Punjab and has 2 sons.

Political career

Chaudhary was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 2002 from Dina Nagar.[1] In 2012, she was re-elected from Dina Nagar.[2] She was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest of a decision of the Supreme Court of India ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) water canal unconstitutional.[3]

In addition to this, she is General Secretary, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and Member, AICC. Aruna has contested 4 elections in a row on INC ticket and won 3 of these elections in 2002, 2012 and 2017. In the last elections held in 2017, she secured more than 72000 votes and won with a margin of 31917 votes (highest amongst women and 6th highest in state) by defeating B.D. Dhupal of BJP. She is most senior amongst only 3 women legislators of the ruling Congress party and is inducted in the council of ministers as a Minister of State. She is now in charge of School Education and Higher Education departments of Punjab. She was Chairperson of Punjab Civil Supplies department from 2004 to 2007.

Aruna is third Generation Politician who inherited politics from her father-in-law Ch. Jai Muni who was founder MLA of Dinanagar and remained MLA for 25 years from same constituency in 1967, 1972, 1980 and 1985.

Development Projects

Aruna has been actively participating in development in and around the constituency and instrumental in construction of 85 km new link roads and repair of all existing roads while serving the tenure as MLA from the constituency that is situated on Indo-Pak international Border. Spearheaded the approvals and getting construction completed for five road culverts and two pantoon bridges, providing piped potable water supply to almost all the villages, construction of Dharamshalas, construction of internal streets, drains in villages and community centre etc.

Social Involvement

Got the cases of pension and other admissible benefits to eligible senior citizens, widows and orphans sanctioned from Social Security/Welfare departments. Continuously working for the welfare of society especially youth, women, downtrodden weaker and under privileged sections of the society.

References
  1. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2002 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  2. "STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2012 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF PUNJAB" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  3. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/syl-verdict-42-punjab-congress-mlas-submit-resignation-4369724/
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