Upendra J. Chivukula has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 2002. Assemblyman Chivukula is the first Asian Indian American elected to the New Jersey General Assembly. Chivukula is the Chairman of the Telecommunications and Utilities Committee and serves on the Commerce and Economic Development Committee.

Upendra has also been on the Franklin Township Council since 1997, serving as its Mayor in 2000 and its Deputy Mayor in 1998.He also served on the Franklin Township Community Foundation, Finance Oversight Committee, Traffic Management Committee, Fire Prevention Board, Emergency Life Support Delivery, Integrated Communications Committee, Emergency Management, Franklin Township Planning Board, Economic Development Committee, Community / Senior Center Steering Committee and the Bicentennial Celebration Committee. Chivukula was also on the Somerset County Affordable Housing Board of Trustees and the Middlesex County Cultural and Historic Commission. He was appointed by the then Governor of New Jersey James Florio to be a Public Member of the New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiners, where he served from 1994 to 1997. He was a Member of Delegation to the Democratic National Convention in 1996 and 2000.

Upendra was born in Nellore, India, and currently resides in Somerset, NJ. Chivukula received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Guindy Engineering College and was awarded a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from City College of New York.

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