P. P. Chaudhary

P. P. Chaudhary (born 12 July 1953) is a Senior Advocate and an Indian politician.

Chaudhary was born in Bhavi village of Jodhpur, Rajasthan on 12 July 1953 to a farming family.

He started practicing law from 1978 in the Jodhpur High Court.

He is married to Veena Pani Chaudhary & has two children.

Chaudhary has been practicing law since 1978 in High Courts and the Supreme Court of India.

He has been designated as senior advocate at the Jodhpur HC and at the Supreme Court of India.

He joined Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Shakha at when he realised in 2014 that without RSS he can not survive in the political journey & his early education was done in the life of Pracharaks of RSS.

He obtained two Bachelor degrees, B.Sc.

and L.L.B. from Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur.

He won his first Indian general elections in 2014 from Pali Lok Sabha constituency with a victory margin of over 4 lakh votes and again won in 2019 with a margin of 5 lakh votes.

He was felicitated with the 'Sansad Ratna Award' for two consecutive years in 2015 & 2016 for outstanding performance in Lok Sabha.

Chaudhary represented India at the International parliamentary Conference on Human Rights in the Houses of London, U.K. He also attended International Executive Committee and General Assembly Meetings, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, London, U.K. in 2015 and 2016; putting forward India’s viewpoint on the issue of Jammu & Kashmir.

He was elected as Member of International Executive Committee, Common Wealth Parliamentary Association London, U.K. (Union Branch - Parliament of India) for three years.

Chaudhary was sworn in as Minister of state in the Union Council of Ministers on 5 July 2016 and assumed charge at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

As part of his charge, he has worked on bridging the digital divide between urban and rural areas, promoting connection of as many as 1 lakh gram panchayats by the optical fibre network and bringing Wi-fi hotspots to all villages.

Chaudhary also held the post of Minister of State for Ministry of Law and Justice from 5 July 2016 to 30 May 2019, working with Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

In October, 2016 he chaired the meeting with US & Dutch lawyers in Hague (Holland), working to finalize an appeal to be filed in the Hague Court of Justice with respect to the huge award rendered against the Government of India in Devas-Antrix Case.

He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and represents Pali Lok Sabha constituency (Rajasthan) in the 17th Lok Sabha.

Currently Chaudhary is Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs.

He has previously served as Chairperson of The Joint Committee on the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill 2022, The Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 & Joint Committee on Offices of Profit.

He is also a member of the Estimates Committee, Business Advisory Committee, General Purposes Committee of Lok Sabha and Consultative Committee of Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt.

of India.

He also led a delegation to the SCO Justice Ministers’ Meeting in Tashkent in October 2017 as MoS.

Chaudhary was designated the post of Minister of State for Ministry of Corporate Affairs on 3 September 2017.

As minister of state he undertook a massive drive to strike off names of 2.5 lakh non-compliant shell companies.

As Minister of State, Chaudhary represented the Government of India at the Marrakech Law Ministers International Conference on Justice in Marrakech, Morocco, under the theme “the independence of the judiciary” from 01 - 5 April 2018.

Chaudhary visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 2018 and met Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Everard Gonsalves, under the “Brihad Sampark Yojana”, an outreach initiative by the Ministry of External Affairs to expand the bilateral relations of India with countries across the world.

He also visited Barbados in April 2018 and met Prime Minister of Barbados, H.E Freundel Stuart, as a part of the initiative.

Chaudhary has been working for the upliftment of the poor farmers and marginalized sections of the society in Rajasthan and has pursued many cases of farmers related to irrigation projects.

He has worked along with his wife to improve & uplift the educational status of children, especially girls in the areas and around his parliamentary constituency, Pali.

He has provided insurance cover for 2,00,000 (two lakh) women of Pali Parliamentary Constituency from his own Parliamentary Salary.

He has installed more than 50,000 solar street lights in every village of his parliamentary constituency under CSR initiatives.

As part of his initiative “Sansad Aapke Dwar” he has travelled to all 500 Gram Panchayats of Pali Lok Sabha.

He has provided hostel facilities in urban areas for students of rural areas to facilitate higher education, especially for girls, and has actively been associated with eye camps, rural development programs and sports competitions in his constituency.

Chaudhary assumed the post of Chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs on 13 September 2019.

As part of his ongoing tenure, the committee has submitted more than 15 reports to the parliament.

Chaudhary was appointed as the Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill 2019.

The 30-member committee headed by Chaudhary tabled its report, making close to 100 recommendations, in December 2021, after almost two years of deliberation.

2019 onwards, Chaudhary holds the following additional posts as a member of various committees –

Chaudhary has previously also held the following designations –