Ramesh Chander Kaushik
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Ramesh Chander Kaushik | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 26 May 2014 – 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Jitender Singh Malik |
| Succeeded by | Satpal Brahamchari |
| Constituency | Sonipat |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 December 1956 |
| Party | Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Spouse | Smt. Luxmi Devi |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Chaudhary Charan Singh University |
| Occupation | Advocate |
As of 15 December, 2014 Source: | |
Ramesh Chander Kaushik is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th Lok Sabha from Sonipat (Lok Sabha constituency), Haryana.[1] He won the 2014 Indian general election being a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.[2] He was retained as the party candidate for the 2019 17th Lok Sabha elections and defeated his opponent Bhupinder Singh Hooda Ex-CM of Haryana in his home turf of old Rohtak district to retain the seat. Ramesh Kaushik is the single most influential leader of BJP in the Sonipat region who has a clout of friends in RSS, BJP high command and across the party lines. He is very good at making and sustaining relations at all the levels.
He started political career from Haryana Vikas Party in the year 1991 when he contested the erstwhile Kailana seat in Sonipat unsuccessfully. Later on in the bansilal wave of 1996 he stood victorious from the same constituency and made was the cabinet minister in the Haryana Government by CM Bansilal. Later on when Bansilal merged the HVP in INC he shifted to Congress. In the 2005 Haryana assembly election he contested from the Delhi bordering Rai constituency and won with a good margin. And was made CPS by the CM BS Hooda. But in the 2009 elections Hooda preferred another Brahmin Kuldeep Sharma over RC Kaushik and the ticket was denied to him.
