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Chaudhary Babulal | |
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 Chaudhary Babulal delivering a speech at Youth Parliament in Agra on 14 September 2014 | |
| Member of theUttar Pradesh legislative assembly | |
| Constituency | Fatehpur Sikri |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1948-07-02)2 July 1948 (age 77) Agra,United Provinces, India |
| Nationality |  India |
| Political party | Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) (BJP) |
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| Residence(s) | Agra,Delhi |
| Alma mater | Raja Balwant Singh College,Agra |
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Chaudhary Babulal (born 2 July 1948) is anIndianpolitician from the state ofUttar Pradesh. He served as aMember of Parliament (MP) for theFatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh) constituency of the16th Lok Sabha.[1] As a member of theBhartiya Janta Party (BJP), he has been one of the prominentJat leaders of western Uttar Pradesh for more than three decades.[2]
Chaudhary was born on 2 July 1948 in the village ofPanwari, near the city ofAgra, in a farming family of Raghunath Singh and Kiran Devi.[1]
He was educated atRaja Balwant Singh College,Agra to the Intermediate level.[3]
Chaudhary is married to Mahaviri Devi, and they have five sons and one daughter. Their eldest son, Rameshwar Chaudhary, ran in theLok Sabhageneral elections twice, for Agra in 1998 and Mathura in 1999, finishing in second place both times with 190,000 and 200,000 votes, respectively. He now operates a chain of degree colleges.[4]
Since childhood, he was influenced byChoudhary Charan Singh, the 5thPrime Minister of India and famous Jat leader from western Uttar Pradesh. He successfully contested the elections of Block Pramukh and Zila Panchayat Sadasya under the umbrella of the Panchayat General Election of the Uttar Pradesh Government. He was elected twice to theUttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (13th Legislative Assembly, 1996–2002 and then 14th Legislative Assembly, 2002–2007) as aMember of the Legislative Assembly for theFatehpur Sikri constituency.[5] He has served as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of KumariMayawati (2002–03) and then in the Government ofMulayam Singh Yadav (2003–2007). He has been the Minister for various government departments including the Ministry of Food Processing, Pension, Rashtriya Bhasha and Maddah Nishedh.[6] He is currently a member of the Committee on Defence and the Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution.[7]