Ashok Chandna

Ashok Chandna was born on 13 January 1984 in a Gurjar family at Nainwa, Bundi. He completed his schooling from Birla Senior Secondary School, Pilani and Graduate from University of Pune.

Ashok Chandna joined the Indian National Congress party in 2009 as a general congress worker. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the Ajmer Zila Parishad and became the General Secretary of the Rajasthan Youth Congress. Later, in 2013, he became the president of the Rajasthan Youth Congress[5] and was elected as a member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly from the Hindoli constituency in October 2013. On 11 December 2018, he was re-elected and included as a Minister of State in the Third Gehlot ministry.

Following the 2023 Rajasthan Legislative Assembly election, he was re-elected as MLA from the Hindoli constituency, defeating Prabhu Lal Saini, the candidate from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), by a margin of 45,004 votes.[1]

Ashok Chandna conceptualised the Rajasthan Gramin Olympics. The rural games were scheduled from 29 August 29 to 5 October 2022. Where more than 30 lakhs people registered and Rajiv Gandhi Rural Olympic Games termed as pivotal moment that will help in creating a sports culture in Rajasthan followed by other states.[6]

He landed in controversy when an audio clip of phone conversation of him went viral on social media in which he was allegedly heard using a casteist slur against Congress worker over the ticket for the panchayat polls.[7]