Adesh Chauhan is an Indian politician and member of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
. He is the member of the
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
The Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly, also known as the Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha, is a unicameral governing and law making body of Uttarakhand, one of the 28 States and union territories of India, states of India. It is seated at Dehradun, the w ...
from the
BHEL Ranipur constituency in
Haridwar district. He first competed in Legislative election in 2012 from Ranipur constituency. He was elected once again in 2017 for a second time in a row.
Adesh Chauhan Extortion Incident
In February 2025, Adesh Chauhan, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for BHEL Ranipur in
Haridwar
Haridwar (; ; formerly Mayapuri) is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, India. With a population of 228,832 in 2011, it is the second-largest city in the state and the largest in the district.
The city is s ...
, became the target of an extortion scheme. The perpetrator, posing as Jay Shah—the son of India's Home Minister
Amit Shah
Amitbhai Anilchandra Shah (born 22 October 1964) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 32nd Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Minister of Home Affairs since May 2019 and the 1st Ministry of Co-operation, Minister of Co-operat ...
—demanded INR 5 lakhs. Chauhan, initially deceived by the similarity of the impersonator's voice to Jay Shah's, grew suspicious and alerted the authorities. The swift response led by SHO Naresh Singh Rathore resulted in the arrest of the impostor, Piyush Pant, along with two accomplices in Delhi. For further details, se
The Hawk's full report
Criminal Conviction
In May 26, 2025, Adesh Chauhan, BJP MLA from Haridwar's Ranipur constituency, and his niece Dipika Singh were sentenced to six months in jail by a special CBI court for wrongfully confining Singh’s father-in-law at Gangnahar police station in June 2009. The court found that Chauhan and his niece, in collaboration with police personnel, unlawfully detained Dheer Singh Chauhan for two days and later booked him in a false dowry harassment case.
Electoral performance
References
People from Haridwar
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand MLAs 2022–2027
Living people
Uttarakhand MLAs 2017–2022
Year of birth missing (living people)
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