Surendra Chaurasia

Surendra Chaurasia was born in an ordinary family in village Kushahari of Deoria district. Started student politics by joining Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and then joined Hindu Yuva Vahini by adopting the ideology of Hindutva under the guidance of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of Uttar Pradesh. His profession according to the election affidavit filed with the Election Commission of India is: Agriculture & Business.^[4]

Surendra Chaurasia is an elected MLA of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and represents the Rampur Karkhana constituency of Deoria. Presently a member of Bharatiya Janata Party, before that he contested student union election in 2006 and then was elected as member of District Panchayat in 2010. He became one of the youngest MLAs in Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly by defeating veteran candidate Ghazala Laari.^[5]