Born on the 3rd of May in the year 1951, Ashok Gehlot is the leader of the Indian National Congress party. He is currently the chief minister of the state of Rajasthan in India. He had earlier been the chief minister of the same state from the year 1998 to 2003. Previously he was the minister of the Lok sabha and a junior minister in the Central Government of India.

Ashok Gehlot comes from the city of Jodhpur and belongs to the Sainik kshatriyas Rajput community of Mandore, Marwar. He did his graduation in science and his master degree in economics. He is married to Smt. Sunita Gehlot.

In the year 1980 Ashok Gehlot was elected as the member of Public Accounts Committee in the Lok sabha. He had been the Union Deputy minister in the department of tourism in the year 1982. Under the government of Rajasthan he was in charge of the ministry of Home and PHED. In 1991 he was appointed as the Union minister of the state in the department of Textiles. On the 12th of December 2008 Ashok Gehlot took oath as the chief minister of Rajasthan.

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