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Chirag Paswan

PEP · Politician · Close Associate

Chirag Paswan is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Chirag Paswan · Paswan, Shri Chirag · شيراج باسوان · شيراغ باسوان · چراغ پاسوان · 3 more...				[sources]
Alias	Chirag Kumar · Chirag Kumar Paswan · Chirag Paswan · चिराग कुमार · चिराग कुमार पासवान · 6 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1982-10-31				[sources]
Place of birth	Delhi · Khagaria				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Country	India				[sources]
Citizenship	India				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	office.chiragpaswan@gmail.com				[sources]
First name	Chirag				[sources]
Last name	Paswan				[sources]
Political association	Lok Jan Shakti Party (Ram Vilas) · Lok Janshakti Party				[sources]
Title	Shri				[sources]
Website	sansad.in				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16728004				[sources]
Position	Lok Sabha (member, 2014-) · Member of the 16th Lok Sabha · Member of the 17th Lok Sabha · Minister of Food Processing Industries				[sources]
Education	Air Force Golden Jubilee Institute · B. Tech (Computer Science) · Bundelkhand University				[sources]
Status	Sitting				[sources]
Address	23 NORTH AVENUE New Delhi NCT of Delhi · Mantri Ji Tola Post - Saharbanni Aloli Khagaria Bihar				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-03-24	Last processed	2026-03-25	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-07-08

Relationships

Family members
Relative	Relationship	Start date	End date
Smt Reena Paswan Close Associate	mother	-	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the 16th Lok Sabha	-	-

Relatives
Person	Relationship	Start date	End date
Ram Vilas Paswan PEP	child · father	-	-
Ram Chandra Paswan PEP

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories340,414

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

India Lok and Rajya Sabha Members8,969

Current and historical members of the two houses of the Indian Parliament

India · Parliament of India

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,554

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons272,208

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,942

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions500,331

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata328,063

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-7f1eb9dd-d8bb-48a8-b1cd-4111aa89562c · in-sansad-ls-4777 · us-cia-india-chirag-paswan-minister-of-food-processing-industries

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