| MLA Mrs. Sawtantra Chowdhary
(tenure from 2003 to 2005)
 Mrs
Swatantara Chowdhary, is a daughter as well as a daughter-in-law
of Fatehabad. Born and brought up in the town, situated on the
Hisar-Sirsa highway, Swatantara was married to Mr Narinder
Chowdhary, a son of Mr Leela Krishan, whose death in March last
caused the byelection. Her parents named her "Swatantara"
because she was born on the Independence Day of 1955.
After matric, Mrs Chowdhary did
her graduation from Government College, Chandigarh. After
obtaining the master's degree in political science from
Kurukshetra University, she did her B.Ed from Hindu College,
Sonepat.
After her marriage with Mr
Chowdhary, a bank officer, she joined the Education Department,
Haryana, as a school lecturer. In September, 1999, she became
the Principal of Government Girls Varisht Madhyamik Vidyalaya in
Fatehabad, a post she held till she resigned to contest the
byelection.
Mrs Chowdhary says she had never
thought of joining active politics. Till her mother-in-law was
alive, she used to campaign for her father-in-law along with
other women members of the family but had no ambition to be an
active politician herself. After the death of her mother-in-law,
she most confined herself to her official and domestic
responsibilities. Of course, she was active in the field of
social service by virtue of being the President of a voluntary
organisation, Mahila Kalyan Manch, which organised marriages of
daughters of needy families.
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