Anuradha Choudhary

{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1960)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = Honorable

| name = Anuradha Choudhary

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|8|29|df=y}}

| image =

| residence = Muzaffarnagar

| office = Member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly

| constituency = Baghra

| term_start = 2002

| term_end = 2004

| office1 = Minister of Public Works Department in Uttar Pradesh state

| term_start1 = 2002{{cite web|author=Yogesh Vajpeyi |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1021025/asp/nation/story_1323420.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021119125529/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1021025/asp/nation/story_1323420.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 November 2002 |title=The Telegraph – Calcutta : Nation |work=The Telegraph|location=India |date=2002-10-25 |accessdate=2018-06-08}}

| term_end1 = 2004

| office2 = Member of 14th Lok Sabha

| constituency2 = Kairana

| term_start2 = 2004

| term_end2 = 2009

| predecessor2 = Amir Alam Khan

| successor2 = Begum Tabassum Hasan

| party = Bharatiya Janata Party

| website =

| source = https://web.archive.org/web/20061020013259/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=4110

| predecessor1 =

| predecessor = Pradeep Baliyan

| successor = Paramjeet Malik

}}

Anuradha Choudhary (born 29 August 1960) is a politician in Uttar Pradesh, India. She has been a minister in Uttar Pradesh, and also a member of Lok Sabha. She started her career with Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal, joined Samajwadi Party in 2012 and joined Bharatiya Janata Party in 2015.{{cite web|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/jat-leader-anuradha-joins-bjp/34181.html |title=Jat leader Anuradha joins BJP |publisher=Tribuneindia.com |date=2015-01-25 |accessdate=2018-06-08}}

Political life

In 2002 she was elected as the M.L.A. from Baghra and became the PWD minister in the state of Uttar Pradesh. In 2004 she was elected as the MP for Kairana on a Rashtriya Lok Dal ticket. She lost 2009 Lok Sabha election from Muzaffarnagar. {{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

In January 2012 before the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly elections, Anuradha quit the Rashtriya Lok Dal to join Samajwadi Party and was appointed the national general secretary of the party. She was stripped of the status of minister in UP after the party's big defeat in Lok Sabha polls in May 2014, whereupon she quit the party.{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/anuradha-choudhary-quits-sp-blames-it-on-azam/ |title=Anuradha Choudhary quits SP, blames it on Azam |work=The Indian Express |date=2014-05-24 |accessdate=2018-06-08}}

In January 2015, she joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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