Sharad Chauhan
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Sharad Kumar{{Cite news |date=2025-02-08 |title=Narela Election Results 2025 Highlights: BJP's Karan Khatri increases lead over AAP's Sharad Kumar |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/narela-election-results-2025-highlights-sharad-kumar-raj-karan-khatri-aruna/articleshow/118048862.cms |access-date=2025-02-08 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}} (also known as Sharad Chauhan) 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.
Personal life
Sharad 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.{{cite web |title=About Sharad Chauhan |url=http://www.sharadchauhan.com/About-Sharad-Chauhan |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719164208/http://www.sharadchauhan.com/About-Sharad-Chauhan |archive-date=2017-07-19 |accessdate=16 February 2015 |publisher=Official website}} His wife is a councillor from Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) and a housewife.
As per his affidavit for elections, his self-declared profession is farmer;{{cite web |title=Delhi: Nerela Result |url=http://www.ndtv.com/elections/delhi/nerela-mla-results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212104032/http://www.ndtv.com/elections/delhi/nerela-mla-results |archive-date=2015-02-12 |accessdate=17 February 2015 |publisher=NDTV}} the AAP party website describes him as a social worker. Chauhan is a matriculate (Xth standard) and passed from Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Bakhtawarpur in 1995.{{cite web |title=Sharad Kumar Affdavit |url=http://docs2.myneta.info/affidavits/ews3delhi2015/87/U0501SHARADKUMAR3.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216220227/http://docs2.myneta.info/affidavits/ews3delhi2015/87/U0501SHARADKUMAR3.pdf |archive-date=2015-02-16 |accessdate=17 February 2015 |publisher=myneta.info/}} His wealth is ₹2.60 crore, as per his affidavit.{{cite web |title=Delhi Results |url=http://www.ndtv.com/elections/delhi/results |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214023823/http://www.ndtv.com/elections/delhi/results |archive-date=2015-02-14 |accessdate=17 February 2015 |publisher=NDTV}} He currently resides in Bakoli village in Delhi.
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.{{Cite web |date=2016-07-31 |title=AAP MLA Sharad Chauhan, 6 others arrested in suicide case of party worker Soni |url=http://www.uniindia.com/news/india/aap-mla-sharad-chauhan-6-others-arrested-in-suicide-case-of-party-worker-soni/574503.html}}
Political career
Earlier, 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.{{cite web |title=Sharad Chauhan |url=http://my.aamaadmiparty.org/candidate/delhi/ac/nerela.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319075755/http://my.aamaadmiparty.org/candidate/delhi/ac/nerela.html |archive-date=2015-03-19 |accessdate=16 February 2015 |publisher=AAP official site}} 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.{{cite news | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/aap-chooses-volunteers-over-veterans-in-its-third-list/article1-1295355.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122212909/http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/aap-chooses-volunteers-over-veterans-in-its-third-list/article1-1295355.aspx | url-status=dead | archive-date=22 January 2015 | title=AAP chooses volunteers over veterans in third list | work=Hindustan Times | date=11 Dec 2014 | accessdate=16 February 2015 | author=Darpan Singh}}
Chauhan switched to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) from the BSP, just before the 2015 elections.{{cite web | url=http://www.iamin.in/en/north-west-delhi/news/dharna-politics-not-my-dna-says-aap-mla-candidate-narela-49710 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216190051/http://www.iamin.in/en/north-west-delhi/news/dharna-politics-not-my-dna-says-aap-mla-candidate-narela-49710 | url-status=unfit | archive-date=16 February 2015 | title=Dharna politics is not in my DNA, says AAP MLA candidate from Narela | publisher=Zee Network | work=I am in DNA Of North West Delhi | date=3 January 2015 | accessdate=16 February 2015}} 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.{{cite web |title=Election Result |url=http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseU054.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150217075555/http://eciresults.nic.in/StatewiseU054.htm |archive-date=2015-02-17 |accessdate=16 February 2015 |publisher=Election Commission of India}}{{Cite web |title=Election Commission of India - Assembly Elections December 2013 Results |url=http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU0567.htm?ac=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210214257/http://eciresults.ap.nic.in/ConstituencywiseU051.htm?ac=1 |archive-date=2013-12-10}} The AAP won 67 out of the total 70 seats in the elections.
See also
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Electoral performance
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References
{{Reflist}}10.[http://www.uniindia.com/news/india/aap-mla-sharad-chauhan-6-others-arrested-in-suicide-case-of-party-worker-soni/574503.html AAP MLA Arrested for Suicide case of former party Volunteer]
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