BJP MP P P Chaudhary, who has been picked to move the essential joint parliamentary panel trying into Payments to introduce one nation, one election, has had a meteoric rise by way of the occasion ranks.
Whereas a member of the RSS from an early age, Chaudhary, 71, made his political debut solely in 2014, the Modi wave election, when he gained the Pali Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan, wresting it from the Congress.
Earlier than that, Chaudhary, the son of a farmer, labored as a senior advocate within the Supreme Court docket and the Rajasthan Excessive Court docket.
Within the Lok Sabha elections earlier this yr, Chaudhary gained the Pali seat for the third consecutive time.
Throughout his first time period in 2016, after he had been a part of a number of parliamentary panels – together with as Chairperson, Joint Parliamentary Standing Committee on Places of work of Revenue – Pali was inducted into the Modi authorities as Union Minister of State, Ministry of Legislation and Justice, and Ministry of Electronics and Data Know-how, and held the put up until 2019.
Throughout his second time period as MP, he was a member of a number of panels and Chairperson, Standing Committee on Exterior Affairs. In 2021, he was appointed Chairperson of the Joint Committee on the Jan Vishwas (Modification of Provisions) Invoice, 2022, and Chairperson of the Joint Committee on the Private Knowledge Safety Invoice, 2019.
Belonging to the border district of Pali, Chaudhary did his legislation from Jai Narain Vyas College, Jodhpur, and practised legislation within the Excessive Court docket earlier than transferring on to the apex courtroom.
An area Pali chief, who didn’t wish to be recognized, mentioned whereas Chaudhary was not very lively on the bottom, he was a outstanding presence at BJP occasions. “Typically, it’s members of his crew who keep up a correspondence with the general public,” the chief mentioned.
In an opinion piece for The Indian Categorical written earlier this yr, Chaudhary had backed one nation, one election as a method of saving “Indians’ hard-earned cash”. He additionally wrote that “frequent elections require the fixed engagement of sources by each the state equipment and the ECI (Election Fee of India), negatively impacting the governance, growth, and welfare actions in poll-bound areas”.
Chaudhary talked about that in July 2019, he had launched a Non-public Members’ Invoice “in search of the insertion of a brand new Article, 324A, to direct the ECI to conduct elections to the Home of the Folks and Legislative Assemblies of all states concurrently”.
He additionally dismissed the argument that simultaneous elections imply regional events will be unable to boost native points strongly, giving the instance of common elections and the 4 Meeting elections in 2019. “The BJP’s vote share for the state Meeting polls (was) decrease than what it bought through the common elections. Which means those that voted for the BJP within the Lok Sabha polls didn’t vote for the BJP when selecting the state authorities. This may very well be seen in all 4 state elections that yr and in 2014 additionally.”
The 2 Payments for consideration earlier than the joint panel headed by Chaudhary, to usher in a single nation, one election, are the Structure (129th Modification) Invoice, 2024, and the Union Territories Legal guidelines (Modification), Invoice 2024.
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