Shankar Chaudhary
Speaker of Gujarat Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 December 2022
Governor	Acharya Devvrat
Chief Minister	Bhupendra Patel
Preceded by	Dr. Nimaben Acharya
Minister of State for Urban Housing (Independent Charge), Health, Family Welfare and Transport, Government of Gujarat
In office 22 May 2014 – 7 August 2016
Minister of State for Medical Education, Environment (All Independent charges) & Urban Development, Government of Gujarat
In office 7 August 2016 – 26 December 2017
Member of Legislative Assembly for Radhanpur
In office 1998–2012
Member of Legislative Assembly for Vav
In office 2012–2017
Member of Legislative Assembly for Tharad
Incumbent
Assumed office 2022
Personal details
Born	(1970-12-03) 3 December 1970 (age 53) Vadnagar, Gujarat, India
Nationality	Indian
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Children	Neeti Chaudhary, Sindhu Chaudhary, Krishna Chaudhary, Ved Chaudhary
Parent(s)	Lagdhirbhai Chaudhary and Ratanben Chaudhary

Shankar Chaudhary (born 3 December 1970) is an Indian politician from Gujarat state. He is the Speaker of Gujarat Legislative Assembly since December 2022. He was the Member of Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2017 and again since 2022.

Political career

He contested his first ever election of the Legislative Assembly at the age of just 27 years against the then Chief Minister Shankarsinh Vaghela in 1997 from Radhanpur. However, in the subsequent election held in 1998, he was elected the Member of the Legislative Assembly from Radhanpur constituency.

He was the Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Medical Education, Environment (All Independent charges) and Urban Development, Government of Gujarat under Anandiben Patel ministry.^[1]

In 2015, he was elected unopposed as the chairman of Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Federation, Palanpur (Banas Dairy) ending 24-year reign of Parthi Bhatol.^[2] He was the Chairman of the Banaskantha District Central Co-operative Bank and Vice-Chairman of The Gujarat State Co-operative Bank and General Secretary of the Gujarat Pradesh Bharatiya Janta Party.

He lost in 2017 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election from Vav against Indian National Congress candidate Geniben Thakor.^[3]

He was elected from Tharad constituency in 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. He was elected as the Speaker of Gujarat Legislative Assembly on 20 December 2022.^[1]