In 1994, he graduated from Yerevan State University having an "Economic Cybernetics" specialty and received a degree in economics-mathematics.
On January 21, 2013, Ghukasyan started a hunger strike in front of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences building in Yerevan.
[3] He had a large poster, written in Armenian and English demanding to "Stop fake elections".
[4] Finishing his protest after the results were announced, Ghukasyan, together with another opposition candidate, Raffi Hovhannisian, a US-born Armenian politician who is the founder of the Heritage Party, filed an appeal Archived 2013-03-06 at the Wayback Machine with the Armenian Constitutional Court to dispute the results of the election (which gave incumbent Serzh Sargsyan a second term).
In May 2021, the Armenian Constructive Party joined the Free Homeland Alliance to participate in early parliamentary elections.