{{short description|Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2016}} {{Use Indian English|date=March 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Chaudhary Babulal | office = Member of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly | image = File:Chaudhary Babulal Ji delivering speech at Youth Parliament, Agra.jpg | image_size = | caption = Chaudhary Babulal delivering a speech at Youth Parliament in Agra on 14 September 2014 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1968|7|2}} | birth_place = Agra, United Provinces, India | citizenship = | party = Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) (BJP) | alma_mater = Raja Balwant Singh College, Agra | footnotes = | signature = Sign of Ch Babulal Ji.jpg | constituency = Fatehpur Sikri | parents = {{plainlist| * Shree prakash chaudary *Kiran Devi }} }}
'''Chaudhary Babulal''' (born 2 July 1968) is an Indian politician from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Fatehpur Sikri (Uttar Pradesh) constituency of the 16th Lok Sabha.<ref name=Babulal_MP>{{cite web|title=Chaudhary Babulal as Member of Parliament|url=https://india.gov.in/my-government/indian-parliament/babulal-chaudhary}}</ref> As a former member of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), currently in Congress, he has been one of the prominent Jat leaders of western Uttar Pradesh for more than three decades.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UP Chunav 2022: लंबे समय तक शांत रहकर भी कमाल कर गए चौधरी बाबूलाल, पढ़ें टिकट मिलने की पूरी कहानी |url=https://www.jagran.com/uttar-pradesh/agra-city-up-chunav-2022-know-about-bjp-agra-seat-candidate-and-ex-minister-chaudhry-babu-lal-22383550.html |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Dainik Jagran |language=hi}}</ref>
==Personal life== Chaudhary was born on 2 July 1948 in the village of Panwari, near the city of Agra, in a farming family of Raghunath Singh and Kiran Devi.<ref name=Babulal_MP/>
He was educated at Raja Balwant Singh College, Agra to the Intermediate level.<ref name="webBab">{{Cite web |title=Babulal Chaudhary: Age, Biography, Education, Wife, Caste, Net Worth & More - Oneindia |url=https://www.oneindia.com/politicians/rajveer-singh-71620.html |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.oneindia.com |language=en}}</ref>
Chaudhary is married to Mahaviri Devi, and they have five sons and one daughter. Their eldest son, Rameshwar Chaudhary, ran in the Lok Sabha general elections twice, for Agra in 1998 and Mathura in 1999, finishing in second place both times with 190,000 and 200,000 votes, respectively. He now operates a chain of degree colleges.<ref name="webBab" />
==Political career== Since childhood, he was influenced by Choudhary Charan Singh, the 5th Prime Minister of India and famous Jat leader from western Uttar Pradesh. He successfully contested the elections of Block Pramukh and Zila Panchayat Sadasya under the umbrella of the Panchayat General Election of the Uttar Pradesh Government. He was elected twice to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (13th Legislative Assembly, 1996–2002 and then 14th Legislative Assembly, 2002–2007) as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Fatehpur Sikri constituency.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chaudhary Babulal as Member of Legislative Assembly, Government of Uttar Pradesh|url=http://www.elections.in/uttar-pradesh/assembly-constituencies/fatehpur-sikri.html}}</ref> He has served as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Kumari Mayawati (2002–03) and then in the Government of Mulayam Singh Yadav (2003–2007). He has been the Minister for various government departments including the Ministry of Food Processing, Pension, Rashtriya Bhasha and Maddah Nishedh.<ref name="webBab" /> He is currently a member of the Committee on Defence and the Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution.<ref name="webBab" />
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