Shakuni Choudhary

Some Lesser Known Facts About Shakuni Choudhary

• Shakuni Choudhary is an Indian politician who took charge as a Deputy Speaker in the 2009 Bihar Assembly. He has served as a Member of the Bihar Assembly seven times and as a Member of Parliament in the 12th Lok Sabha. He was also a founding member of the Samata Party.

• In 2015, he contested the Bihar Assembly elections from the Tarapur constituency on a ticket of the Hindustani Awam Morcha but lost to Mewalal Chaudhary of Janata Dal (United) with a margin of 12,000 votes.

• Prior to entering politics, Shakuni Choudhary served in the Indian Army for fifteen years. He fought in the Indian Army in the wars of 1962, 1965, and 1971.

• He left the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) in March 2014 and became a member of the Janata Dal (United). He explained his decision to switch parties later in an interview and alleged that Lalu Prasad Yadav was controlling the party in a dictatorial manner with the goal of furthering the interests of his own family.

• In 2015, Shakuni Choudhary joined Jitan Ram Manjhi’s rebellion and later the Hindustani Awam Morcha, a party that Manjhi started after splitting from the Janata Dal (United).

• He was appointed Bihar State President of Hindustani Awam Morcha in 2015, but after suffering a crushing defeat in the Bihar assembly elections, Shakuni Choudhary resigned from his position as State President of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) in November 2015. ^[5]The Hindu

• In 2017, he founded the private school Shakuni Choudhary The International School in Munger, Bihar.

  

• At a gathering of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in 2019, Shakuni Choudhary indicated that he planned to resume his active political career as a member of the BJP.

• In January 2024, to commemorate the establishment of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, he lit 88 diyas and offered 88 coconuts on his 88th birthday. In an interview, he expressed his gratitude towards Narendra Modi and said,
  

  The biggest gift of the 88th birthday is the construction of a grand temple of Lord Shri Ram in Ayodhya and the consecration of the idol in it. Ramlala will be consecrated in the auspicious time and Lord Shri Ram will reside in the dream temple of his devotees.This was the biggest dream of my life which has been completed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the order of the Supreme Court.”