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IPS officer Pankaj to contest from the Barmer LS seat

By IndianMandarins- 26 Mar 2019
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Rajasthan cadre 2009 batch IPS officer Pankaj Kumar Chaudhary is all set to contest Lok Sabha elections from the Barmer parliamentary constituency and he may file nomination on April 08. It may be mentioned that his wife Ms Mukul Pankaj Choudhary too had contested Rajasthan assembly elections (2018) challenging the Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in her Jhalarapatan assembly constituency.

 

It may be further added that the Rajasthan Govt dismissed Chaudhary (44) in the first week of March. Later he had resorted to the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) challenging the state government's dismissal order. The CAT had issued notices to the state government and the Centre in the matter.

 

Sources close to Chaudhary said that he analysed seven seats in the western Rajasthan and finally decided to contest from the Barmer parliamentary constituency. Having served as the Superintendent of Police in Jaisalmer he is well versed with the aspirations of electorate of the region he said. 

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