Dinesh Kaushik | |
Office1: | Member of Haryana Legislative Assembly from Pundri |
Term Start1: | 2014 |
Term End1: | 2018 |
Constituency: | Pundri |
Birth Date: | 13 April 1960 |
Birth Place: | Fatehpur, Punjab, India (now in Haryana, India) |
Party: | Independent |
Spouse: | Sandhya Kaushik |
Children: | 2 |
Dinesh Kaushik (born 13 April 1960) is an independent politician and current Member of Legislative Assembly in Haryana, India. He represents Pundri constituency in the Haryana Legislative Assembly.[1]
Author and academic D. C. Verma, in his book Haryana, highlights Kaushik's mobilising efforts in Karnal since the late 1980s. Verma notes that he campaigned and organised for more than a decade in the area without stepping into electoral politics.[2]
The Pundri constituency in Haryana has consistently elected independent MLAs since 1996.[3] Kaushik won it as such a candidate in the 2005 state assembly elections[4] Kaushik was among nine former independent MLAs from the state who joined the Indian National Congress party after those elections.[5] Kaushik won the 2014 Assembly campaign, again as an independent candidate.[3] Soon after being elected in 2014, Kaushik indicated his support for Manohar Lal Khattar, the BJP leader who became Chief Minister.[6] He is a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Haryana Legislative Assembly and has been part of the Library Committee and the Committee on Local Bodies and Panchayati Raj.[7]
Kaushik is the chairman of the BPR Educational Institutions.[8]
Kaushik is married to Sandhya Kaushik and has two sons.[1] His son Sudhanshu Kaushik is an international youth activist.