Anand Chaudhari

Chaudhari is from Mandvi, Surat district, Gujarat. He is the son of Mohanbhai Chaudhari. He passed Class 12 and later did a diploma in mechanical engineering at Dr. S & S, Gandhi Engineering College, Surat.^[4] He married Pritiben Chaudhari.^[1]

Chaudhari won from Mandvi Assembly constituency representing the Indian National Congress in the 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. He polled 96,483 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Merjibhai Chaudhari of the Bharatiya Janata Party, by a margin of 50,776 votes.^[5][6] He became an MLA for the first time winning the by-election conducted in 2014 defeating Hemlataben Vasava of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 22,569 votes.^[7]