Ajay Kumar Chaursiya | |
Native Name: | अजय कुमार चौरसिया |
Office: | Minister of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs of Nepal |
Term Start: | 15 July 2024 |
President: | Ram Chandra Poudel |
Primeminister: | KP Sharma Oli |
Predecessor: | Padam Giri |
Office1: | Member of Parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha |
Term Start1: | 22 December 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Bimal Prasad Shrivastav |
Term Start2: | May 1999 |
Term End2: | May 2002 |
Predecessor2: | Ram Chandra Kushwaha |
Successor2: | Ajay Kumar Dwivedi |
Constituency2: | Parsa 2 |
Office3: | Member of 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly |
Term Start3: | 28 May 2008 |
Term End3: | 28 May 2012 |
Predecessor3: | Surendra Prasad Chaudhary |
Successor3: | Raj Kumar Gupta |
Constituency3: | Parsa 3 |
Party: | Nepali Congress |
Nationality: | Nepali |
Birth Date: | 3 February 1965 |
Birth Place: | Parsa District, Nepal |
Honorific Prefix: | Honourable |
Honorific Suffix: | MP |
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.
He was born and raised in Amarpatti, Parsa, and completed his primary and secondary and higher education in Motihari, Bihar.
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.