Background
Nihal Chand was born in a Meghwal Scheduled Caste family. His father Bega Ram was a Swatantra Party Modern Language Association from Raisinghnagar.
politician member of the Lok Sabha
Nihal Chand was born in a Meghwal Scheduled Caste family. His father Bega Ram was a Swatantra Party Modern Language Association from Raisinghnagar.
He is also known as Nihalchand Chauhan and Nihalchand Meghwal. In 1995, at the age of 24, Nihal Chand was elected as the "Panchayat Director" of Nanuwala, Sardarpura Bika and Bagicha. He was also elected as the pradhan (chief) of the Raisinghnagar panchayat committee.
He was elected to the 11th Lok Sabha (lower house of the Parliament of India) on a BJP ticket from Ganganagar.
In the next general election in 1998, he was defeated by Shankar Pannu of Congress. After his defeat in the general election, Nihal Chand contested the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly elections.
He was declared as BJP"s candidate from Raisinghnagar. However, just before the elections, BJP formed an alliance with Hariyana Rastriya Lokdal (HRLD), and gave that seat to HRLD. Nihal Chand was asked to withdraw his candidature, but he refused to do southern
As a result, BJP expelled him.
In 2008, he lost the Assembly elections to Daulat Raj of Congress from Raisinghnagar by a margin of 5042 votes. In 2009, he lost the general elections to Bharat Ram Meghwal of Congress. In 2014, he defeated Bhanwarlal Meghwal of Congress on the same seat.
He was made a Minister of state (metal–oxide–semiconductor) in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In 2011, Nihal Chand"s name appeared as one of the 17 accused in a police FIR. After an year of investigation, the police closed the case in 2012, calling the charges as false and fabricated. The woman approached the trial court, which accepted the police report and dismissed the protest petition filed by her.
The woman then approached the district court, which also dismissed the charges. In 2014, a few days after Nihal Chand was made the minister, the complainant went in for revision, following which the district court issued notices to Nihal Chand and 16 others, asking them to respond to the court.
This caused a controversy, with the opposition party Congress demanding Nihal Chand"s resignation.
BJP refused to oblige, pointing out that Nihalchand was given a "clean chit" in the case when Congress was in power in Rajasthan.
He has been elected as a Member of Parliament four times from the Ganganagar constituency. He is a union minister of state in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers and a member of the 16th Lok Sabha of India. In 1996, he became the youngest Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) from Rajasthan at the age of 25.