Shruti Choudhry

Shruti Choudhry is the leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former Lok Sabha member from the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh constituency. She is the granddaughter of Bansi Lal and the daughter of Surender Singh and Kiran Choudhry. She started her political career with the Congress party after the death of her father in 2005. In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, she won the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh seat by defeating Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) candidate Ajay Singh Chautala with a margin of 55,577 votes. However, Choudhry lost two back-to-back Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019 to the BJP's Dharambir Singh with margins of 1,29,394 and 4,44,463 votes, respectively. The BJP has fielded Choudhry from her family's traditional stronghold of Tosham in the 2024 Haryana Assembly polls.