Pushpam Priya Choudhary

Some Lesser Known Facts About Pushpam Priya Choudhary

• Pushpam Priya Chaudhary was born in a political family in Darbhanga, Bihar.

• She completed her schooling in Darbhanga and later studied in Pune for her graduation. She earned a master’s degree in Development Studies from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

• In 2019, she completed a master’s degree in Public Administration from the London School of Economics.

• Before joining politics, she worked as a consultant in Bihar’s tourism and health departments.

• She founded The Plurals Party on 13 October 2020.

• In March 2020, she launched The Plurals Party to promote development-based politics in Bihar. She declared herself the chief ministerial candidate of her party for the 2020 Bihar Assembly elections.

• She campaigned on issues of merit, education, and governance instead of caste and religion. In the 2020 election, she contested from Bisfi in Madhubani and Bankipur in Patna but lost both seats.

• Chaudhary served as a consultant to the Bihar government from August 2011 to August 2015.

• Her party had planned to contest all 243 seats but finally fielded 148 candidates due to registration delays.

• She wore only black clothes and a mask, saying she would remove it only after winning an election. She also promised to make Bihar as developed as European states by the year 2030.

• In 2025, she again announced that The Plurals Party would contest all 243 Assembly seats in Bihar. She said 122 seats would be given to women candidates to increase women’s representation in politics.

• The Election Commission allotted her party the ‘city’ symbol for the 2025 Assembly elections. She confirmed that she would contest from the Darbhanga constituency in this election.

• She stated that her party’s main focus would be employment generation and the overall development of Bihar. Before the 2025 election, she took a new oath related to her political identity.

• She said she would remove her mask only when she wins an election or any party nominates a woman as Chief Minister.

• Pushpam Priya Chaudhary’s political family has a long connection with JD(U), but she chose to form an independent party.

• She continues to wear black as part of her political identity and campaign symbol.

• She is not a communist, but likes the Russian revolutionary and politician Vladimir Lenin.