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{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1968)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = [[List of deputy chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir|Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir]]
| term_start = 16 October 2024
| term_end =
| lieutenant_governor = [[Manoj Sinha]]
| 1blankname = [[List of Chief Ministers of Jammu and Kashmir|Chief Minister]]
| 1namedata = [[Omar Abdullah]]
| predecessor = [[President's rule]] {{efn|[[Kavinder Gupta]] was the last officeholder before Choudhary.}}
{{Collapsed infobox section begin|Additional ministries}}
| term_start1 = 16 October 2024
| 1blankname1 = [[Second Omar Abdullah ministry|Ministry and Departments]]
| 1namedata1 = *[[Public Works]] (R&B)
*[[Industry (manufacturing)|Industries]]
*[[Commerce]]
*[[Mining]]
*[[Labour & Employment]]
*[[Skill Development]]
| predecessor1 = [[President's rule]]
{{Collapsed infobox section end}}
| office2 = [[Member of Legislative Assembly (India)|Member]] of [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency2 = [[Nowshera Assembly constituency|Nowshera]]
| term_start2 = 8 October 2024
| term_end2 =
| predecessor2 = [[Ravinder Raina]]
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1968}}
| birth_place = [[Nowshera, Jammu and Kashmir|Nowshera]], [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]], India
| profession = Politician
| party = [[File:Flag of Jammu and Kashmir (1936-1953).svg|20px]] [[Jammu and Kashmir National Conference]]
| other_party = [[File:Indian Election Symbol Ink Pot and Pen.png|20px]] [[Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party]]
[[Bahujan Samaj Party]]
| image = Surinder Kumar Choudhary.jpg
| image_size = 220px
| caption = Formal portrait, 2024
}}

'''Surinder Kumar Choudhary''' (born 1968) is an Indian politician, currently serving as the 9th deputy chief minister of the [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who Is Surinder Choudhary? Nowshera MLA Picked As J&K's New Deputy CM By Omar Abdullah, surinder kumar always following hindutawa |url=https://zeenews.india.com/india/who-is-surinder-choudhary-nowshera-mla-picked-as-jks-new-deputy-cm-by-omar-abdullah-2807526.html/amp |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=zeenews.india.com}}</ref> He has been a member of the [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]] since 8 October 2024, representing the [[Nowshera Assembly constituency|Nowshera assembly constituency]] as a member of the [[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference]]. Choudhary previously served as a [[List of members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council|member of the Legislative Council]] (MLC) from the [[Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party]] (PDP).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=Nowshera Election Result 2024 LIVE Update: Assembly Winner, Leading, MLA, Margin, Candidates |url=https://www.news18.com/elections/nowshera-election-result-2024-live-update-9077469.html |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=News18 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nowshera vidhan sabha chunav result 2024 live : Surinder Kumar Choudhary From Jammu & Kashmir National Conference Won The Election |url=https://zeenews.india.com/india/nowshera-vidhan-sabha-chunav-result-2024-live-winner-and-losser-candidate-ravinder-raina-total-votes-margin-bjp-congress-eci-jammu-and-kashmir-assembly-election-result-2804195.html |access-date=2024-10-08 |website=Zee News |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
Surinder Kumar Choudhary was born in a [[Hindu]] [[Jats|Jatt]] family in 1968. Before joining politics, Choudhary was an employee of Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu. He contested his first Assembly election in 2009 from Nowshera as Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. In 2014 elections, he was a [[Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party]] candidate for Nowshera assembly constituency and lost to [[Ravinder Raina]] of [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] by a margin of 10000 votes.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-16 |title=J&K's new Deputy CM is recent import to NC from BJP, Omar says 'kept promise to Jammu' |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/jammu-kashmir-deputy-cm-nc-bjp-surinder-choudhary-omar-abdullah-9622967/ |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> In April 2022, Choudhary resigned from PDP and joined BJP. He was general secretary of PDP at the time of his resignation. Choudhary cited reasons such as "people's love and affection" for delimitation under BJP government which divided Nowshera and Sunderbani into two distinct assembly constituencies.<ref name=":0" /> However, he quit BJP to join National Conference in July 2023, accusing Raina of "promoting family" and "corruption".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who is Surinder Kumar Choudhary? Here is why Omar Abdullah picked Nowshera MLA as J&K Deputy CM |url=https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2024/10/16/who-is-surinder-kumar-choudhary-here-is-why-omar-abdullah-pick-nowshera-mla-as-jandk-deputy-cm.html |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=The Week |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

In 2024 Assembly election, Choudhary contested again from Nowshera as a [[Jammu & Kashmir National Conference|National Conference]] candidate and polled a total of 35,069 votes, defeating Ravinder Raina by a margin of 7819 votes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who is who in Omars cabinet |url=https://m.greaterkashmir.com/article/who-is-who-in-omars-cabinet/340273 |access-date=2024-10-17 |website=Greaterkashmir |language=en}}</ref>

== Deputy chief minister ==
On 16 October 2024, Choudhary was sworn in as the deputy chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir in a ceremony held at Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC). The ceremony was presided over by Lieutenant Governor [[Manoj Sinha]]. Choudhary was joined by [[Sakeena Masood]], [[Javid Ahmad Dar]], [[Javed Ahmed Rana]] and [[Satish Sharma (politician)|Satish Sharma]] on the [[dais]] to take the oath of office as ministers.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thehindu.com/elections/jammu-and-kashmir-assembly/omar-abdullah-sworn-in-as-first-cm-of-ut-jammu-and-kashmir/article68759594.ece | title=Omar Abdullah sworn in as J&K CM; Surinder Kumar Choudhary is Deputy CM | newspaper=The Hindu | last1=Ashiq | first1=Peerzada }}</ref> On 18 October 2024, an order was issued by Lieutenant Governor Sinha to allocate portfolios to council of ministers on the advice of chief minister. Choudhary was given the charge of Public Works (R&B), Industries and Commerce, Mining, Labour and Employment, and Skill Development.<ref>{{Cite news |last=PTI |date=2024-10-18 |title=J&K L-G allocates portfolios; who gets what in newly inducted Omar Abdullah-led cabinet |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jammu-and-kashmir/jk-l-g-allocates-portfolios-who-gets-what-in-newly-inducted-omar-abdullah-led-cabinet/article68767814.ece |access-date=2024-10-18 |work=The Hindu |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

== Electoral performance ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Election !! Constituency !! colspan="2"|Party !! Result !! Votes % !! Opposition Candidate !! colspan="2"|Opposition Party !! Opposition vote %|| Ref
|-
|[[2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2024]]||[[Nowshera Assembly constituency|Nowshera]]||{{party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir National Conference}}||{{Won}}||54.16%||[[Ravinder Raina]]||{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}||42.09%||<ref>{{cite news|last1=Election Commission of India|title=J&K Assembly Election Results 2024 - Bandipora|url=https://results.eci.gov.in/AcResultGenOct2024/candidateswise-U0815.htm|access-date=10 October 2024|date=8 October 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241010072117/https://results.eci.gov.in/AcResultGenOct2024/candidateswise-U0815.htm|archive-date=10 October 2024}}</ref>
|-
|[[2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2014]]||[[Nowshera Assembly constituency|Nowshera]]||{{party name with color|Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party}}||{{Lost}}||36.92%||[[Ravinder Raina]]||{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}||49.51%||<ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Jammu & Kashmir 2014 - Jammu & Kashmir - Election Commission of India |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3797-jammu-kashmir-2014/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613150235/https://eci.gov.in/files/file/3797-jammu-kashmir-2014/ |archive-date=2019-06-13 |access-date= |website=eci.gov.in}}</ref>
|-
|[[2008 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election|2008]]||[[Nowshera Assembly constituency|Nowshera]]||{{party name with color|Bahujan Samaj Party}}||{{Lost}}||19.54%||Radhay Sham Sharma||{{party name with color|Jammu & Kashmir National Conference}}||26.47%||<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2008 to the Legislative Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir |url=https://ceojk.nic.in/pdf/10-Detailed%20Results.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225073739/https://ceojk.nic.in/pdf/10-Detailed%20Results.pdf|archive-date=25 December 2024|access-date=25 December 2024|format=pdf}}</ref>
|-
|}

== See also ==
* [[2024 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election]]
* [[Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly]]

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[[Category:Jammu & Kashmir National Conference politicians]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Jammu and Kashmir MLAs 2024–2029]]
[[Category:Deputy chief ministers of Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party politicians]]
[[Category:Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council]]
[[Category:People from Rajouri district]]
[[Category:1968 births]]
[[Category:Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Jammu and Kashmir]]

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