Aruna Chaudhary
Aruna Chaudhary is an Indian politician and a member of Indian National Congress. Aruna Chaudhary is a senior leader of Punjab Congress. She is member of 15th Punjab Legislative Assembly and represents Dina Nagar constituency.
Political career
Chaudhary was elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly in 2002 from Dina Nagar. In 2012, she was re-elected from Dina Nagar. She was one of the 42 INC MLAs who submitted their resignation in protest of a decision of the Supreme Court of India ruling Punjab's termination of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link water canal unconstitutional.In addition to this, she is General Secretary, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee and Member, AICC. Aruna has contested 4 elections in a row on the INC ticket and won 3 of these elections in 2002, 2012, and 2017. In the last elections held in 2017, she secured more than 72000 votes and won with a margin of 31917 votes by defeating B.D. Dhupal of BJP. She is most senior amongst only 3 women legislators of the ruling Congress party and is inducted in the council of ministers as a Minister of State. She is now in charge of the Revenue and disaster management departments of Punjab. She was Chairperson of Punjab Civil Supplies department from 2004 to 2007. On 2 September 2024, she was appointed Deputy leader of the Congress Legislative Party in Punjab Legislative Assembly after the defection of Raj Kumar Chabbewal from Congress to Aam Aadmi Party.