Jagdeep Singh is an Indian politician belonging to

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, ) is a List of political parties in India, political party in India. It was founded on 26 November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions, following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement against then gover ...

. He won as an

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from

Hari Nagar Hari Nagar/H-Town is one of the 70 Delhi Legislative Assembly constituencies of the National Capital Territory in northern India. It is also known as H-Town. Overview Present geographical structure of Hari Nagar constituency came into existenc ...

constituency of

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Personal life

Jagdeep Singh was born on 31 May 1971 in

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. His father's name is Jagdish Singh. He has passed 12th standard from National Open School, Delhi in 1993 and is a licentiate. He owns an insurance business. Jagdeep Singh is married to Raminder Kaur, who is self-employed. They have a daughter Kirat Kaur and a son named Swaraj Singh. He is a

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by religion. His hobby is listening to music. He has three criminal cases filed against him.

Politics

It is believed that Jagdeep Singh won the MLA seat only because of the political disturbance between sitting MLA Harsharan Singh Balli and BJP. Harsharan Singh Balli being the only politician having an influence in Hari Nagar constituency, his absence in the vidhansabha elections got Jagdeep Singh from AAP major victories both times. Jagdeep Singh won the

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by polling 38,912 votes. He defeated the joint of

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(BJP) and

Shiromani Akali Dal The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) (translation: ''Supreme Eternal Party'') is a centre-right Sikh-centric state political party in Punjab, India. The party is the second-oldest in India, after Congress, being founded in 1920. Although there are ma ...

(SAD), Shyam Sharma of the SAD by a margin of 8,876 votes. He also defeated the four-time sitting MLA from the BJP, Harsharan Singh Balli, who joined the

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(INC) after being refused a ticket by the BJP. The middle-class and Sikh dominated Hari Nagar has low cost DDA houses as well as wealthy kothis. Singh retained the seat in

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. He almost doubled the votes he received (65,814) and defeated his nearest rival Avtar Singh Hit of the SAD (who contested under the BJP election symbol) by a margin of 26,496. It was described as AAP's "most monumental victory" in Sikh-dominated seats. Hit, a former president of SAD's Delhi unit and also of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC), was considered a weak contender against Singh, due to the delay in his election campaign and low connect with voters; while Singh had the opportunity to win in the absence of Harsharan Singh Balli. Jagdeep Singh admits that had it been Harsharan Singh Balli he was contesting, he would not have the slightest chance of winning.

References

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