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Ajay Chaurasiya

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Honourable
Ajay Kumar Chaursiya
MP
अजय कुमार चौरसिया
Minister of Law, Justice and
Parliamentary Affairs of Nepal
Assumed office
15 July 2024
PresidentRam Chandra Poudel
Prime MinisterKP Sharma Oli
Preceded byPadam Giri
Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha
Assumed office
22 December 2022
Preceded byBimal Prasad Shrivastav
In office
May 1999 – May 2002
Preceded byRam Chandra Kushwaha
Succeeded byAjay Kumar Dwivedi
ConstituencyParsa 2
Member of 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly
In office
28 May 2008 – 28 May 2012
Preceded bySurendra Prasad Chaudhary
Succeeded byRaj Kumar Gupta
ConstituencyParsa 3
Personal details
Born (1965-02-03) 3 February 1965 (age 59)
Parsa District, Nepal
NationalityNepali
Political partyNepali Congress

Ajay Kumar Chaursiya (Nepali: अजय कुमार चौरसिया) is a Nepalese politician. He served as the Asst. Minister in the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development from 2001-2002.

He is (as of August 2022) a central committee member of Nepali Congress Party and chief of Terai-Madhesh Coordination Department.

Early life

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He was born and raised in Amarpatti, Parsa, and completed his primary and secondary and higher education in Motihari, Bihar.

Career

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He is a politician in the Terai region. He is representative to the Pratinidhi Sabha in the Nepalese legislature on behalf of the Nepali Congress.

He was a Member of Parliament from Nepali Congress in 1999, 2006, and 2007. He represents the Parsa District, Constituency 2, Birgunj Nepal.[1][2]

In 2001, he was appointed as an Asst. Minister of Federal Affairs and Local Development of Nepal in the cabinet of Sher Bahadur Deuba. He took part in the People's Movement (Janandolan 2) and was arrested several times, imprisoned for more than 4 months. Chaurasia was elected twice as member to the constituent Assembly from Parsa 3 and Parsa 2 of Parsa District.

References

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  1. ^ Election Commission of Nepal Archived 2006-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "प्रतिनिधिसभा निर्वाचन क्षेत्र – Election 2017". Retrieved 2020-12-08.